Stefan Teplan's Writings
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Apr.07.2011
Waves of Hope
One does not live by bread alone. Sumathi realized it not until she had some bread again: She could not eat any longer. However, she lost much more than just her appetite. Neither could she sleep any longer. And, in some quiet moments, she was thinking to herself, she even should not live any longer. At least she was asking: What for?Sumathi had experienced what...
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Nov.14.2009
Caritas India Publishing, New Delhi 2005; Caritas Internationalis Rome, 2005.
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” These are the famous first lines of Hemingway’s great story “The Old Man And The Sea” and it was this story that immediately came to my mind when I first met Kokila. Though she is not an old man but a young girl. Though she does not go...
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Nov.11.2009
Waves Of Hope, Caritas India Publishing
Kanya Kumari is a place you’ll find in every travel-book on India because in whole India there is no other place like that. Travel writers use to switch to a more poetic language once they set about putting down in words what makes the charms of that very Southern tip of the Indian mainland. Kirsten Ellis described it as a “spectacular, wind-blown location, with...
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Nov.11.2009
Waves Of Hope, Caritas India Publishing
„It is a social revolution“, I said.
„Aren’t you exaggerating a bit?” asked the TV-man.
„Am I exaggerating, Sagai? You know better”, I asked.
“It is a social revolution”, Sagai confirmed.
After all, I thought, Sagai is an Indian and if these TV-people don’t believe me as a foreigner – a German journalist happening to live in India for 16 months – they must...
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About Stefan
Editor and journalist for some big German magazines, newspapers and radio stations, author of books in German and English language. Lot of travel-writing, book-reviews and interviews with writers like Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, Norman Mailer, Leena Lander...
Causes Stefan Teplan Supports
Caritas international (international wing of Caritas Germany), Reciclazaro (Brazil), , Humanitas (Costa Rica), Dalit-Solidarität in Deutschland (Dalit...
Stefan’s Favorite Books
Das Schloss, Der Prozess, Waiting For Godot, Till Damaskus, The Island Of The Black Butterflies, 1984. Other Voices, Other Rooms, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter...