How constructive is the entry in the diary in a difficult time. More comprehensively, the healing effect of in-depth biography work when a person tells his whole life.
During an organ concert in the Ice Sea Cathedral of Tromsö in northern Norway, I hear a chorale fantasy by Max Reger, in the finale all registers of the organ sound together. Without asking a question, I get an answer: “I don’t have to do anything anymore”. When a person considers his whole life in retelling, there is sometimes an immense wealth in the room. And gives satisfaction, peace, strength.

“This is how I can travel the world: What I need is to have everywhere, and indispensablely I bring – love.’ (From the sonnet ‘Reisezehrung’ by Goethe)

Claudia Mischke works as an actress, speaker and audiobiographer. She lives in Cologne and in an eighty-year-old village in Ticino.