Twibber Stories

As a professional and passionate horse photographer, I recently went on a business trip to New Zealand, which is, for me, the most beautiful place in the world. There, I met Vicki Wilson, one of the best local horse breeders and riders—a World Cup jumping tournament…

Recently I learned that I am the eldest university student in Germany. Wow! I am 91 years old and study at the University of Marburg. I’m in my 14th term, studying German and European history.

Our story started about two years ago. I was a refugee from Iran looking for an affordable flat in Berlin when I was introduced to Agnes on her 101st birthday. Seventy-three years older than me, she was looking for somebody to share her apartment and get…

As a single mother of two small kids, I went to the main station in Munich in the summer of 2015 when many refugees from Syria arrived. My five-year-old son asked me: „We can’t really help them, right?“

When I moved from Berlin to the Baltic Sea in 2012, I knew: I had to decelerate my life. Before, it seemed I lived in a hamster wheel. First as a stewardess, then in a career in communication and marketing. A glittering life in the big…

One woman who I really admire is a local here in my hometown Munich – Lydia Staltner. Lydia founded LichtBlick e.V. in 2003, a non-profit organization that takes care of elderly people in need.

As former German bankers-turned-camel whisperers, me and my husband never expected to become pioneers of an award-winning camel dairy in Australia. A world away from managing investments at one of the eldest savings banks in Germany.

Two years ago I had a special birthday wish: I wanted to get five chickens. Before, I had little to do with animals. I had grown up with dogs, cats, and a pony horse, but lived a typical city life later.

Like most of us, my wife and I feel the urge to reduce our footprint and to do our tiny part to help minimize man-made climate change.

Yesterday I went to a big supermarket I hadn't been to in a while. I wanted to buy some parsley, but couldn't find it, where I had remembered it being before. I asked one of the attendants, but her answer puzzled me: "It's over there, next…