MY DREAM TO BR FREE

The Author Juergen Stollin was born in 1941 in the Krkonoše/Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains). The expulsion from the homeland came about in 1945. He spent the difficult post-war period with an older brother and his mother in poor living conditions in a small village in the state of Hesse. Here he went to school for eight years. The father returned to the family only very late from Russian captivity. A graduate-degree as a baker in Marburg and an apprenticeship as a chef in Bremen fulfilled young Juergen's life-long dream: seafaring. He became acquainted with the "wide world" on freighters and passenger ships. In 1965 he married a Ceylonese lady in Colombo, who bore him two daughters - he is now divorced from her. Back again on land and in Germany, he became a gastronomer and an "innkeeper that went broke". He became very successful later as chef de cuisine in five-star hotels. There was a period of turbulent years in between, about which the artist of life speaks in this book, which is the only one published by him so far. Currently the author lives with his life partner on the island Teneriffa