Where Mary kisses Joseph

"You work too much. I can't hear it anymore. Ben, I said, enough already, one word gave the other and anyway he didn't feel like driving thousands of kilometers over Christmas." Sometimes the Christmas season sounds like this story by Ursula Fricker: not at all contemplative. Sometimes, however, there is joy and candlelight in the air. In any case, all of Schaffhausen's Christmas stories are about people with hopes and longings that reach beyond the border of the Rhine and the horizon of the Rand. The many-voiced stories, written by Schaffhausen authors from the present and the past, remain relevant beyond Christmas as an insight into Schaffhausen traditions and tales. Because Schaffhausen is where Mary kisses Joseph.