The Book tells the extraordinary story of a life and welcomes you to a journey going over seven decades. It tells of a Boy, who was never satisfied during the post-war era. Of his dream to travel on the world's oceans. And of how he gets his fulfilment by indirekt means.
Yet the dream is simultaneously a curse-once he has experienced
the wide world, he cannot get away from it ever again.
The marriage with an Asian woman does not bring the expected fulfilment in life. And after the end of the sailor's life, there are some failed independent undertakings on land. A carefree Hippie life is a part of escaping from the compulsions of the society. Many restless years of adventurous and risky "business" later, a person steps into his life, who again overturns everything.........
Sprache
Maße
Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
Dicke: 3.7 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-7407-5209-5 (9783740752095)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Autor*in
Juergen Stollin was born in 1941 in the Krkonose/ Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains) today Tscheche Republik. The expulsion from the homeland came about in 1945 (As the family has be German)
He spant the difficult post-war period with an older brother and his mother in poor living conditions as a refugee in a small village in the state of Hesse. Here he went to school for eight years.
The father returned to the family only very late from Russian captivity (Prisoner of War).
A graduate-degree as a pastry baker in Marburg and an apprenticeship as a chef in Bremen fulfilrd young Juergen's life-long dream: seafaring. He became acquainted with the "wide world" on freighters and passenger ships.Later back again on land and in Germany, he became a gastronomer and innkeeper. He became also very successful a chef de cuisine in five-star hotels in deferent parts of the world....
