I fell in love with... radio When I was a child - maybe in the age of 10 or somewhat around this – I got a special gift, which I couldn’t let it go for the next decades of my future life. It was one of these kind of things to which we create a so purely personal affair, that it is almost impossible for anybody to understand that mystical connection. And even today, almost 30 years later, it is also very difficult to explain what was happened on this day and all the time since then. This gift was a radio, one from those which we called in German „Weltempfänger“(world receiver). It was my one and only door to a new world… and how I understood much time later, my personal door into a close relationship with many kinds of new technologies! Just for the protocol : with a world receiver you can receive radio stations from all over the world, if they are sending on a short wave frequency. Radio stations in many countries did this. They sent information and reportages about their own country and people – also in German. And I was keen to find and hear the German ones. Almost every night hidden under my blanket, one ear strongly pressed onto the loudspeaker, because so I was able to hear the voices with minimum loudness and my parents couldn’t catch me while I did this. And that was the point… to search, find, and hear without any rules or interferences from the grownups. A very huge feeling of personal freedom in the universe of a ten-year-old shy boy, with a large ugly pair of glasses and without any talent for every kind of sport or whatever was so cool at this time. My own borderless freedom under my blanket that I did not need to share with anyone. It was the beginning of a never ending love to spoken words in the middle of my head. Short wave has gone, Podcast was coming. And with these Podcasts my interests changed fundamentally. But my passion is the same! Whenever I put headphones into my ears, I feel like a ten-year-old boy, hiding under a blanket, sheltered in a place where nothing can disturb…