Wo wir wohnen

Although we live in Olten or New York, in Munich or Helsinki, is this also our home? And what does "home" mean to us? Does the feeling of being at home not simply depend on people and, above all, on the language and stories in which we recognize ourselves - like Erwin, for example, or André, or the milkman who brings the milk at four in the morning? Peter Bichsel, who was once a teacher and then became a writer, reflects in Solothurn today on why people are constantly driven away from their place and region, for example, on vacation. It is strange, he says, that we choose as travel destinations those areas where the locals cannot afford to travel. Since no one lives here anymore, we go to places where people still live. And it is almost absurd that we earn our money here, with which we...