Nothing I’d experienced before was quite like my first couple of Hauenstein brainstorming sessions with Alexander van Dülmen at his townhouse in Berlin. Everything he said more or less precisely hit a ...

When I started seriously writing my first version of the story of Hauenstein in Berlin 25 years ago filmmaker Thomas Struck was delighted I was so fascinated by the character he had created some years ...

Part One of this series about the roots of my Berlin thriller Hauenstein I described how, aged 24 in the winter of 1984-85 I first encountered Peter Bruegel the Elder’s painting The Triumph of Death ...

WARNING: BELOW IS THE TERRIFYING IMAGE THAT DROVE ME TO WRITE THE BERLIN THRILLER HAUENTSTEIN. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF YOU WISH TO AVOID SEEING IT! Every story has a backstory. Therefore, where a story ...

As I stepped into the elevator and I was surprised when somebody I didn’t know asked me who Hauenstein is. „Tony Hauenstein is very old, but he looks like he’s 45. He lives in Berlin where he’s hiding ...

There were a number of requests for me to publish the text of my speech at Weingut Flick in Wicker/Rheingau on the occasion of the unveiling of the restored Königin-Victoriaberg monument by Jill ...

In exactly one month it will be the 45 th anniversary of the so-called Judgment of Paris tasting at which a French jury placed red and white wines from Napa Valley/California first ahead of the most ...

Für den deutschsprachigen Text bitte nach unten scrollen! I went to Gut Hermannsberg (GHB), the ex-State Domain of the Nahe region of Germany, from JamesSuckling.com in March 2019 to be Riesling ...

I don’t expect anyone will find it hard to believe that Berlin, where I lived from the end of 1993 until the end of 2012, currently feels very spooky. In virtually empty side streets and parks where ...

I just attended the wonderful and stimulating FLXcursion global Riesling conference in the Finger Lakes (FLX) region of Upstate New York where I also presented a seminar on Tuesday, 23rd July. I got a ...

Farewells always ripped me up, but sickness not inner struggles is the only reason that this photographic record of the farewell for Roy Metzdorf (pictured above) of the Weinstein wine bar in the ...

The novelist and co-inventor of The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, famously hates understatement. He once said that the problem with understatement is that people can mistakenly think you haven’t said ...