Hello World!

I'm Daniela - or Dani. Pick what you like best.

After living in Hamburg all my life as far back as I can remember, I did a crazy thing: I moved to the UK in 2018, ignoring Brexit. I first stayed in Somerset with friends, then moved to Bristol, and when the company I was working for by then didn't want me anymore (their loss, silly things) and nobody else wanted to give me a new job (all HR managers were Brexit-damaged, I guess), I moved back to Germany, Berlin this time. After nearly three years in our crazy capital I thought, that's enough, and I came back to Hamburg. Now I'm thinking about moving again, to a smaller town... one grows older and wants a calmer life with less people around, I guess. Or only better people. More quality. Whatever. (Still love the UK, by the way, can't help myself)

My skills and talents and interests keep me well occupied. My skills include being a legal secretary and I'm rather enjoying it. Talents include creating paintings and painting furniture and stage designs, and photography, and creating objects/props/all types of things. Interests include penpalling, travelling, history (mostly Roman, and yes I do think about the Roman Empire nearly every day although I'm a woman), geography, fleamarkets, general knowledge quizzes, bit of music, bit of baking, lots of Youtube watching or binging TV series.... I love wearing green-coloured clothes and glasses, collecting books on first names, paying attention to weird details, creating stuff from scratch and cracking silly jokes.

My passion, my not-to-be-imagined-without pastime, my air, my heart, my everything: amateur theatre. Acting, directing, props making, stage design, poster design etc etc  I couldn't live without being a member in at least one theatre club. I have been doing this since I was 14 years old and I will continue till I fall off the stage due to heart-failure. Right now I hold membership to two clubs, one German, one English, but who knows what I will do next should I move again, maybe three clubs??? Will let you know.

If YOU find all of this fascinating enough to say: Hm, I might want to get to know this extraordinary creature, then send me a message. But a proper one with some content that tickles my curiosity, as I coldly and arrogantly ignore all boring one-liners, hellos, hi how are yous and so on.  Show me that you know the difference between chats/ texts and proper messages and maybe I'm intrigued enough to write back. But as I said, oneliners etc will be deleted, that's the way it is. This is a penpalling page, not a chatroom. Ta!

I only request some common decency, but apparently I have to spell things out because not everone seems to know what common decency is these days:

1. Please call me by my name, and nothing else. I am not your "dear", your "friend", your "lady", your "madam", your "beautiful", your "Caria" (???) or whatever. Just.My.Name. Be respectful because I won't call you silly things either, right? Thank you.

2. I am NOT interested in getting messages from young men in Northern Africa, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria or other countries from that category - you know who you are. Women from these countries are very welcome to write, that's the only reason why I didn't block these countries. NO MEN from Northern Africa, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, etc. Thank you.

3. No random questions without introducing yourself first. Thank you.

4. No friendships without a few messages up front. Thank you.

5. I will not marry a stranger who orders me to marry him. That is ridiculous. Thank you.

6. No telephone numbers, no Skype or Whatsapp etc; regular messages here and/or snail mail on paper only. Thank you.

Thank you for your attention!

Amateur theatre, theatre, acting, directing, books, reading, writing, art/illustration, painting and interior design, crafts, DIY, quiz shows, history, films, TV, music and singing, cooking, travelling, photography, gardening, flea markets...

Just to name a few: Santiano (absolute favourite!), Loreena McKennitt, Ina Müller, Alexandra, Florent Pagny, Angelo Branduardi, Rhydian, ABBA, Reinhard Mey, Nolwenn Leroy, I Muvrini, Radio Doria, Wise Guys, Adoro - and recently even the odd Rammstein song (Zeit being my favourite); film music by Hans Zimmer (he is the best!), the odd musical like Les Misérables (this really wowed me!), The Lion King, Cats, My Fair Lady, Greatest Showman and classical music by Mozart, Händel, Puccini, Haydn, Purcell, Schubert, Vivaldi and the Canon by Pachelbel. Solo musical instruments I like: cello, violin, oboe, clarinette, good drums... bombarde, uillean pipes and nyckelharpa! What an orchestra that is!

Adam's Apples, Alien, Annette, Bienvenue chez les ch'tis, Bridget Jones (all), Brothers (Danish film), A Bug's Life, Charles Chaplin's films (all), Cloud Atlas, The Court Jester, Delicatessen, Didier, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Es geschah am hellichten Tag, Event Horizon, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Gladiator, The Greatest Showman, Harry Potter films, Little Shop of Horrors, Logan, Love Actually, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, The Muppet's Christmas Carol, The Name of the Rose, Shrek, Star Trek (young crew), Star Wars (Ep 7-9), The Vikings.
Sigourney Weaver, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Alison Janney, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway or Suranne Jones are great leading ladies in my opinion. The sexy male variety includes for me Robert Downey Jr, Adam Driver, Jason Isaacs, Hugh Jackman, Tom Hiddleston or Alain Chabat for instance...

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Ballykissangel, Barbaren, Blackadder, Broadchurch, Call the Midwife, Cold Feet, Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who, ER, Fawlty Towers, Game of Thrones, The Graham Norton Show, Großstadtrevier, Home Improvement, Horrible Histories, House MD, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Loki, Michael McIntyre's Big Show, Mom, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Musketeers, My Family, The Nanny, Pointless, QI, Richard Osman's House of Games, Rome, Sherlock, The Vicar of Dibley, The West Wing.

crime novels, historical novels, historical crime novels :-), warm-hearted chick-lit stories, biographies, non-fiction, popular science, classical novels, other novels; for example by Rebecca Gablé, Bill Bryson, Dean Koontz, Donna Leon, Charles Dickens, Jenny Colgan, Maeve Binchy and many others; film and TV scripts by Richard Curtis or Aaron Sorkin or anyone who can write decent lines for interesting characters... I wish there would be more plays like that...

Hotly recommended: The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec for all lovers of Norse Mythology with characters like Angrboda, Loki, Odin, Skadi, Thor etc, most brilliant novel I read in the past 10 - 15 years

"You are beautiful"                     (Ex-Boyfriend, but if he's right he's right, right?)


"Who left the fridge open?"         (Tropic Thunder)

"Ich bin malade."                     (La Grande vadrouille)

"--------------------."              (Charles Chaplin in: The Kid)

"Tea? Do we have tea?" -
"The drink is not popular in England."       
                                            (Charles II - The Power and The Passion)

"Oil is not for the weak. It is the Earth's milk, and only the strong may suckle at mother's teat!"          (H.P. Parnassus, played by Adam Driver, SNL "Career Day")

"Shabat Shalom, bitch!"            (Orange is the New Black)

"Then why the security camera footage show you gyrating just half a millimetre away from the crime scene?"                  (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,
                                                         "Mad Lib Theater",
                                                         guest B. Cumberbatch

"I am the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice."                                                   (The Wolverine)

"You're a fruity little smoothie, aren't you?"
                                                          (Ant to Dec in I'm a Celebrity,
                                                           Get Me Out of Here!)

"We're not alive, aren't we, if we not take the odd risk, now and again..."                                                 (Gentleman Jack)

"But it's fascinating, isn't it, don't you think? 'Cause you're Irish, you're Scottish, you're English - and I'm posh!" 
                                            (Miriam Margolyes on The Graham Norton Show
                                              from 10-01-20, talking on the topic of accents
                                              to Sharon Horgan, Alan Cumming and Daniel
                                              Radcliffe)

"I'm the most me I can be!"        (Stephen Colbert)

"No. Try not. Do it or do not. There is no try."      (Yoda in Empire Strikes Back)

"Green is the colour of will. The Guardians harnessed will because it's the strongest source of energy in the universe."   (Tomar-Re in Green Lantern)

"But hush/ I think that I did hear a toilet flush."           (Inside No 9 "Zanzibar")

"Es gibt Sushi" - "Kann ich nicht!" - "Wieso?" - "Krieg ich Flöhe von"
                                                          Helga & Marianne (Freshtorge)

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