Lost Property was partly inspired by the current refugee crisis in Germany. But I also wanted to draw parallels with the refugee crisis in post-war Germany. In 1945, Germany was in ruins and yet it had to accept and assimilate ethnic German refugees kicked out of their ancestral homes in,... Read more →
Lost Property
11/11/2017
11/04/2017
Inspiration from the newspapers: remembrance and learning from the past.
I found the photo below, and the article to which the photo was attached, in the Sonntags Zeitung - 5 November 2017. The Sonntag's Zeitung is a weekly evangelical publication, and it appears in our postbox every Friday. Several of its articles have grabbed for my attention because the stories... Read more →
09/20/2017
Inspiration for Lost Property: How the Past Becomes Present
The principal theme of “Lost Property” is the notion that an individual’s current feelings, his personality traits and her current behaviour may often be shaped by the past events the individual has been through. The theme suggests that an individual’s past may continue to affect his/her present until that individual... Read more →
09/18/2017
Inspiration for "Lost Property" - Refugee crisis 2015 and Refugee Crisis 1946
“Lost Property” was inspired by the current refugee crisis in Germany. But I also wanted to draw parallels with the refugee crisis in post-war Germany. In 1945, Germany was in ruins and yet it had to accept and assimilate ethnic German refugees kicked out of their ancestral homes in, for... Read more →
08/03/2017
The importance of theme.
The theme of a novel is the heart of the story and will have a universal human appeal. Your theme must not only appeal to the reader, it should animate and inspire you if you are to spend so much time working with it. Examples of themes in my own... Read more →
07/14/2017
What inspired the novel "Lost Property?"
“Lost Property” was inspired by the current refugee crisis and by my discovery of an earlier refugee crisis - that of 1945/46 when around 12,000,000 ethnic German civilians were forced out of their ancestral homes in, for example: Sudetenland, Hungary, Rumania, Ukraine and Poland, and sent back to Germany to... Read more →
06/28/2017
Thoughts and words
Where do authors get their ideas? What inspires them to spend all that time writing a novel that, perhaps, only a few people will read? These questions – and some suggested answers – will be my subject in this blog. I’ll share the source of many of my ideas and... Read more →
