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Carolin Würfel

Carolin Würfel

The Guardian

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I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out?

I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out?
18.04.2025 40

The Guardian

Carolin Würfel

Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die

29.03.2025 30

The Guardian

Carolin Würfel

After a breakup, can you ever be happy living alone? I moved countries to find out

Recently I found this note in my 2021 diary: “Moved into this apartment five days ago, waiting for loneliness to catch up, but it hasn’t come.”...

24.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Carolin Würfel

East German culture has been ignored for too long. Until we embrace it, our country will remain dangerously divided

When I went to school in the 1990s, GDR literature wasn’t taught or read. It was treated as something shameful. I didn’t dare to pick up a book by...

20.08.2024 60

The Guardian

Carolin Würfel