Aside from being the head of Berlinale’s Panorama section since 1992 and initiator of the festival’s Teddy Award, Wieland Speck is the director of EXBlicks selection Escape to Life.
Friday
20:00 Of course, I stay at home on Friday night. I started this habit in the 1970s when, as a cool cat, you’d only go out on Mondays and Tuesdays. Friday crowds annoy me.
22:30 I fall asleep, missing the Heute Show on ZDF (see Sunday).
Saturday
08:00 Hoping to escape senile early rising, I have a lie-in.
11:00 A spa-morning in my own bathroom. Breakfast in the bathtub, then reading everything I missed during the week: Der Freitag, Le Monde Diplomatique, taz and Exberliner.
16:00 Drive to Markgräfler Weinhandlung (Spandauer Damm 27, Charlottenburg) for a six-pack of red Gutedel.
20:00 Make some food… Brussels sprouts or cauliflower and maybe some trout.
Sunday
10:00 Looking out of the window of my high-rise-apartment, there is sky and weather in abundance.
12:00 Sunday is a good day for hoovering. My dishwasher gets an extra Calgon today.
15:00 Shopping at Ullrich on Kantstraße (Hardenbergstr. 25, Charlottenburg) to queue with people from all over the world for two hours. Afterwards, I give a fiver to the guy who’s living on the sidewalk.
19:00 Watch the Heute Show I missed on Friday.
