when reflecting on this question, to realise how many wonderful experiences there were: sociological sparring with sports students, great passion in the work area, discourse flow in the graduate college "Selbst-Bildungen", collective proposal writing over pizza and, well, canned beer (after 10 pm!), 'DJing' with DJ Bushman at the Night of the Profs.....

Two nights on guard duty (I wonder which commuter spends the night in the office?), two days at the Presidential Board (ethnography of a control centre), two days at the circulation desk of the university library (I wonder who borrows which book?). Rest on Sunday.

the "red square", at noon in the sunshine: campus vibrations.

in the canteen?

The unpretentiousness, the short distances, the room for manoeuvre between the disciplines.

the culture of discussion and debate in the Academic University Senate, the 'half-life' of the Presidential Boards, the spirit of criticism of the advance of an activation and incentive rhetoric that treats pretty much everything - knowledge, skills, willingness - as resources (whew!).

a medium-sized university that counters petty-bourgeois fantasies of excellence with upper-class composure, does not force impact but allows it to happen, cultivates a culture of admission independent of third-party funding and makes room for the unexpected. Even if the points of reference for such naïve optimism dwindle, it will be a university that I will have enjoyed working at.