The Black Rose
Denounced as a heretic, the most famous German preacher Eckhart von Hochheim had to submit to the Inquisition in the court of the Pope in Avignon in the year 1328. In the company of his novice, ...
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Dirk Schümer was born in 1962 in Soest, and studied German language and literature, philosophy and medieval history in Hamburg and Paris. In the early 1990s, he worked as an editor and cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Venice and Vienna, and has worked in the same roles for the Welt Group since November 2014.
Everyone Else is a Tourist
Despite all the downsides, there’s no getting away from getting away. Well-travelled Dirk Schümer explains why and provides us with an entirely subjective encyclopaedia of travellers en ...
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