Kirjahaku

The author invites you to a look back in time, as far as the Iliad. However instead about an ancient Greek town, it's Steinbeck country. Added to it thoughts and observations about the life and entertainment around town and across the salad fields, during those early years of computers. The collection is from just before the year 2000. A collection of prose and poetry by helmut s.

Introduction: In the 1970s at the 5-star All-Suite Hotel Sepp heard the first time the comparison: "Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples."Sepp Goldminecity is book #3 in a series of fiction writing describing sections of Sepp's Odyssey during the past century. Sepp's Odyssey has led him from the Frankenland to Northern Germany. After completing three apprenticeships in the Hansestadt and arriving at a point where he thought he had it made Sepp finishes his military training. The sudden unexpected loss of employment forces Sepp to search and find work. Luck is with him. He finds a management position at the Costa del Sol. It's a dream job. When he awakens, he leaves Andalusia in a hurry. Next Sepp is heading to the most southern tip of Africa. At the 5-star All-Suite Hotel, Sepp is proving that he is the expert in his field, well trained and knowledgeable in table service, 'haute cuisine, ' and management. As Sepp works long hours, his wife spends much time with her family back in Hamburg.Sepp learns a lot, being the Room Service Manager for 227 Suites. Master Sepp and his team provide in-room-food&beverage-service to heads of state, politicians, international bankers, rugby players, arms dealers, movie stars, stage actors and entertainers, businessmen, diamond buyers, and sellers alike. He works for a small paycheck and big gratuities. Sepp leaves Johannesburg just about the time of the Soweto uprisings, to fill a Food & Beverage Manager position at a 3star hotel at the Indian Ocean in the Cape Province.

Introduction: "...the so-called Sudeten Germans, or former Czechoslovakia's three-million-strong ethnic German minority, should have been happy to be merely expelled from their homeland in the wake of the second world war.""When a citizen of some country collaborates with a country that has occupied his state, an expulsion is a subtler form of] punishment than, for example, a death penalty," Milos Zemon the Czech President told the APA news agency " May 17- 2013-Prague.Sepp's parents belonged to the group of people, as addressed by the Czech President. Waldemar and Erika were Sudeten Germans and based on what he said they needed to be grateful to be alive. Sepp, Sudetenland to Kleinerort is book #1 in a series of fiction writing describing the starting point of Sepp's Odyssey, which includes his parents forcible expulsion from their 'Heimat' the Sudetenland and being resettled in the Frankenland. It's the story of an overwhelmed, battered and defeated Erika falling from the train into the arms of an unprepared, much surprised man, by name of Waldemar Schuster. Sepp is born in Northern Bavaria, and grows up in the American Zone of West Germany. Sepp, Sudetenland to Kleinerort describes Sepp's youth, and his attempts to fit in. It also is the starting point for his travels, his quest for a better life, to find his 'Heimat' which leads him from Bavaria to the Hansestadt Hamburg, Spain and far beyond.

Introduction: Sepp, Hansestadt the Apprentice is book #2 in a series of fiction writing describing a section of Sepp's Odyssey during the past century. It portrays Sepp's growing up years from age thirteen to twenty-two. Sepp went to school for eight years. In Kleinerort 4 years, followed by 4 more years of Oberealschule in Unterschwarzenberg to age 13. Then it was time for him to stand on his own two feet. The 13-year-old Sepp went to the 'Arbeitsamt' (German Federal Employment Agency) in Unterschwarzenberg. Here on his first try, Sepp got offered an apprenticeship as a waiter in Altestadt at a most famous Luxury Hotel. He tried but failed, only to regroup and on his second attempt was accepted as a waiter apprentice in the Hansestadt. After a 12-hour long train ride, upon arrival at his new workplace, Sepp knew he had it made. Sepp was willing to do whatever it might take to stay and call the Ferry-Restaurant-Caf &Bar his home for good. He had no plans ever to go back to Kleinerort. It is here at the Ferry-Restaurant-Caf &Bar that Sepp learns all about working and living life. Sepp becomes a product of his surroundings and the society. Sepp's life changes, as his motives, reasons, and purpose change daily. He loves having his own room in the attic, the good food, the friendly people, indoor plumbing, shower and all those many things he never had before. As time goes on, he learns a new behavior by copying the style and conduct, the manners and actions as seen by his superiors, co-workers, buddies, and friends. With his room-mates help he gets introduced to manhood. In addition three hospitality apprenticeships, Sepp receives hands on training, in the sciences of sexuality. For the reader it is important to know and understand that the age of consent in Germany is 14, and any person mentioned in this book over the age of 21 did not exploit the 14 - 15 year old Sepp. He was seeking out and welcoming the adventures and temptation, and fully enjoyed all situations which offered him sexual education and study-time.

Introduction: Sepp's Odyssey had led him from the Frankenland to the Hansestadt. After realizing that he had to move on, he lived and worked in Andalusia, before his travels led him to the most southern tip of Africa. In South Africa, Sepp got to know the people and learned about the 'pencil test.' "Whenever it was unclear what classification a person should be put in. The simply pushing a pencil through a person's hair determines the racial identity, and with this, it's easy to classify a person as White, Coloured or Black "Sepp, The Cape is book #4 in a series of fiction writing describing a section of Sepp's Odyssey before the turn of the century.Sepp meets influential and powerful businessmen and becomes close friends with Walter van Russbourg. The same, or was it his wife Alexis, who sees more in Sepp than Sepp could have ever imagined. With this Sepp is on a roll, and soon on many trips to America and back. Sepp works hard and does his best. He takes risks to please his bosses of which he has more than one. In the United States of America, Sepp's dream of home ownership is turning into reality.

Introduction: He recalls his visit to Kansas City, and getting wasted on Bourbon Whiskey at the hotel bar across the street, then after being lectured by the bartender about the Kansas City Mafia, the Chicago Mafia, the Irish Mafia and the Teamsters, Sepp was ready to leave the country for some more peaceful pasture.Getting out to West, to Big Sur, Sepp enjoyed to live the good life the kind you could only find in a late 1970s, early 1980s in California. And he visited South Africa on occasions. He was hardworking and risk taking. Sepp believed in the power of money, because without really doing much, except risking jail or prison, by bending some rules, and being at the right time at the right place, he had money coming his way wherever he went. Sepp formed a California Corporation, and invested in properties. He could have kept going, but then something drastic happens, and it happens so fast and unexpected that Sepp didn't even realize what happened, until after it all had happened, and long after. The after effects could be felt till the end of his days. Is self-will-run-riot a sure path to destruction? You be the judge.

Introduction: Sepp, Rehab is book #6 in the series of fiction writing describing Sepp's Odyssey before and after the turn of the century. It portrays Sepp's struggles to survive, by working hard and partying hard, doing as he had learned back in the Hansestadt as a young man. At times he uses his talents to create, battling the misfortunate habits to destroy all he worked for, within moments. Sepp had to be doing better than anyone else to prove a point namely that he was somebody, was the faster, the smarter. Sepp's ego was unable to accept that he was who he was. Up to now he still thought that he was different from those others, he met. He was better than the ones addicted to sex and having problems with alcohol. Sepp disliked DUIs and the cost of those inconveniences. Sepp was self-made, he started from a nothing son of a shoemaker, and he made it. Sepp was once married to one of the prettiest women he had ever seen. He had built up a small fortune in a short time. About sexual fun, yes after all, as a healthy strong young man he loves temptations.

Introduction: All Sepp books are stories about war, refugees, money, sex, religion, apartheid, food and very common issues, such as addiction, and spiritual awakenings. The Sepp books are without a so-called hero. We have Sepp, an ordinary kid growing up slowly on planet earth, and he has no special super powers, aside from a 'Guardian Angel' and the 'schmaltzy' Walter fellow, until he finds what he always wanted. Book #7 builds on books#1 through #6. Will Sepp ever find out the truth about Walter van Russbourg, his birth father, or maybe not? Finally in Sepp, Home Book#7 Sepp learns from his lessons, realizing the insanity of his actions and as he stops fighting and gives up, he wins and finds his place in life. However, is being at home and in peace, having sobriety and serenity just an inside job?