Photo: Bedburg cultural scene at the "Remember Woodstock" festival in summer 2019.

It's such a pity, I would have liked to have looked at Gerd Köster. That singer who can mitigate the tristesse of an annoying nicotine withdrawal – you just don't think about it anymore. The powerful poet of the Kölschen dialect, who in his performances also shows himself visibly as a connoisseur of the upper fermentofe of the same name, casts a fine, as salutary look into the madness of the everyday in his texts. In a trio with guitarists Frank Hocker and Helmut Krumminga, he had actually invited to the new program called "Wupp" in the Pulheimer Köster-Saal on the first Thursday in November. It would have been about infused cover versions of their favorite songs, from Ray Davis, Rod Stewart to Iggy Pop and Tom Waits to Frank Zappa. Would he have found suitable words for the cultural crisis?

Who wouldn’t have googled themselves before, for fun at the Freud or because, like me, someone wants to know if the system already knows its own close-up blog. With some astonishment I notice that there are even more Oliver Tripps in this country. Less so than in the US, but at least. And one of them stands out in the list, which posts three short opinions on the online question platform „Quora“ and who is apparently also a friend of colorful locomotives, one looks at the accompanying picture. He has six followers. From 24 November last year to 23 November. May likes to answer Oliver Tripp three questions.