Personal motto as a literary scholar: "those books are made for working."

the small colloquium that my doctoral candidates gave me for my 50th birthday. I was able to listen in and they gave talks on their topics and my favourite authors.

the finance department: "After gold urges,/ On gold depends/ But everything."

the Prinzengarten, the perfect place for "loitering with intent".

- First things first: either eat or talk, so in the canteen: eat.

the collegial cooperation: "What I couldn't achieve on my own, we managed to do together."

If I had one utopian wish, it would be to increase the number of philologies represented: It would be nice to add Romance and Latin studies. Because "if you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own".

"a little Paris that educates its people".