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“Life Is Not A Rehearsal” Part 4 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz "The Hofrat…  it took a bad end. He lived in the believe to be the one who decides what counts. We all have to live with the consequences of our actions of the past. The Hofrat is a good example for bad decisions based on evil intentions. It was another time and such guys like the Hofrat haven’t calculated the new circumstances.The anger of the population turned the life of the ones who tried to profit or benefit from the misery of others into a nightmare." The reflections of the sunset appear as a flickering fire in grandma Naomi's eyes. "Life is not a rehearsal, never forget that. There is no second chance."   In this moment the German shepherd of Sarah's mother runs into the winter garden. "Come on Sweetie, you wild beast." Sarah takes the head of the dog with both hands into a stranglehold such as starting a fight.  ...

“The Wheat & The Chaff” Part 3 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz “Can you remember what the Hofrat said: Now the wheat will be separated from the chaff. My god was this an ass!” Martin doesn’t wait to start his first anecdote with one of his personal highlights from the beginning of the revolt. “There were these guys who provoked the population. Very consciously  - with quasi criminal intent to benefit from the misery of people. He is a very good example what happened at that time. The Hofrat...” Sarah interrupts Martin’s story in the middle of the sentence: “What’s a ‘Hofrat’?” “‘Hofrat’ was the title of a civil servant; everybody could become a Hofrat when the person was long enough in the position of a civil servant and had political contacts. And such a guy was the Hofrat; he and many others had delusions of grandeur. He tried to compromise your grandmother already before the outbreak of the pandemic. We all knew a...

“Patience” Part 2 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz “Who lost the patience?” asked Sarah looking from the kitchen at the garden door such as she can’t await that the guests for the afternoon tea on this Easter weekend arrive. The grandmother arranges the plates with the cookies around the palm willow bouquet decorated with old-fashioned Easter eggs at an oval table of the rattan seating group in the glass house of the winter garden with a natural privacy protection by an old tree’s branches which reach to the ground. Granny continues the conversation from the enclosed glass veranda about the causes of the revolt after the outbreak of the pandemic. “Only few lost the patience and drifted into criminality. Most of the people used the possibilities of the new time. They had for the first time the means in their hands to be connected and to practice solidarity with enough transparency without harming privacy to secure a ...

"Kitchen talk" Part 1 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz “There will come the day we have forgotten to remember how the revolt started and the names of the ones who had to carry the weight of others' guilt. Many will say nobody was guilty and that it was the coronavirus which ruined first the life of the weak middle class and worsened the suffering of the poor, before the revolt was started almost as a natural reflex to the greed of the ones who ruled discreetly from a shadowy network over power and money. The mass of people was breathless from the disease, the grief of the high amount of deaths made them hopeless, and the downfall couldn't be stopped early enough. The people’s situation turned with new working conditions into a degraded status of mainly short-time employees with diminished rights and such a low income that the living costs couldn't be covered. When it was hard to afford living before the p...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 5: 'The interrogation' Part 4: ' Woke up!' Part 3: 'Who is the policeman's wife really?' Part 2: ' The nice wife of the policeman ' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   "Which political party would be a problem for you, Mr. Hofrat?" asks the woman in the interrogation room where she has to face the accusations of the Hofrat.  "None. I can continue my work (he laughs) under any possible constellation. "  "Too bad. I would need a decision-making aid where I should make a cross in a few days," laughs the policewoman's wife.  "You'll soon be laughing on the other side of your face."  "Not as long as I look at you, Mr. Hofrat, and thinking of y...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 3: ' Who is the policeman's wife really? '  Part 2: ' The nice wife of the policeman ' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' Part 1 to 3 of the story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   Part 4: 'Woke up!' The 'Bourgeois Desires' were until yet a fictitious story inspired by a dream about sex and crime playing in Austria's security agent and justice scene. 'Woke up!' throws a realistic light from a very personal view on the situation in Austria how it was made generously public in the last around ten days. With this episode entitled 'Woke up!', the 'Bourgeois Desires'-series gets an essential thread spun by fate and written down in a personal note by Karin Sawetz on 25 May, published on 28 May 2019. Personal notes b...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 3: 'Who is the policeman's wife really?' Part 2: ' The nice wife of the policeman ' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   "The Hofrat is only a perverse civil servant who benefits from the system. He doesn't belong to the far-left nor to the far-right group in our justice and executive system we are observing," she says to her husband, the policeman. "So, what's your advice? Do you have any order by your department?" - "No, currently not. They reacted amused when they heard from the disgusting action of the Hofrat - a typical sociopath - and meant that the rats move on the tracks of the system's weakness across the whole country. They monitor an increasing amount of executions of sea...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 2: 'The nice wife of the policeman' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   "A nice woman, friendly and yet distant, has this colleague from the group of civilian investigators at his side," thought the counselor on the occasion of a farewell party of a colleague from the municipal administration into retirement. With the typical bad city wine, the Viennese 'Schmäh' (a sarcastic humour) is well smeared to slip the way down to the terrain where the Austrians feel at home: the sexual potency showing-off. The potency show was underpinned by wordplays referencing that the structure of thinking is caused by the Austrian usage of words. Jokes such as that the word tourism means in Austrian German 'Fremdenverkehr' ...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by  Karin Sawetz Part 1: 'The dark side of a counselor's life' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   The state counselor is a nice civil servant. He is polite, correct and never had any issues with the law. For sure not! The Hofrat is police jurist and stands for the law and for correctness. His suit attracts no attention by anyone who has sense for style; his whole appearance is uninteresting. The only thing that makes him interesting is his position at the state where people have to pay attention - if they want or not.  Probably this situation - the forced friendliness of people who are working for him, police men and police women, the servility of the ones who were impeached and had to get in contact in the one or other way with him, in combination with the defiance against the person he really is withou...