Oliver Pötzsch

“Do you know what is the driving force in every good play?” He looked at the two women questioningly. When they didn’t…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“I tell my seven-year-old son about his remarkable forefathers. I leave out the bloody details. (For him these people are like knights,…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“If you want to know who is responsible for anything, as who benefits from it.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Life went on, despite all the dying.”

— Oliver Potzsch

“That’s what we have to find out, but it surely has nothing to do with a mountain, a witch, or other such…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Drums rumbled, cymbals clanged, and somewhere a fiddle was playing. The aroma of deep-fried doughnuts and roasted meat drifted down to the…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“True, it was customary in Schongau that the hangman could spare the offender if he married her. But Johannes Kuisl had a…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Alcohol was a good friend, but it was also jealous and would tolerate no competition.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Careful what you say. God curses those who curse.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“These women with their feminine wisdom had always been suspect to men. They knew potions and herbs; they touched women in indecent…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“...we are trying, in a world of increasing complexity, to create a simpler and more understandable place for ourselves. No longer do…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“I believe in evil, but not in ghosts. Only we humans can be evil; we don’t need ghosts for that.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Growing children are like foals. If they’re not given room to run, they’ll lash out in every direction.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“How he hated this guard who was so obsessed with the bureaucracy. People like him would be the downfall of civilization.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“When he dipped into the mysteries of nature, he was sure that there must be a God. Who else could create such…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“As the hangman’s wagon entered the paved square, the music broke off. Someone screamed, “Hey, hangman! Have you sharpened your sword? But…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“And all because of a mistaken concept of compassion!”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“It’s the wrong people that suffer, not the poor.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis,” he murmured. A disputed book that was based on the idea that all the blood…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“That’s the way people are: what they don’t understand is the work of the devil.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“This was the night of April thirtieth—Walpurgis Night! Witches danced in the forests and mated with the devil, and many people armed…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“If anyone wants to pray, he should do it in the silence of the church and not carry on like people at…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“His love for this girl was so strong now, at this moment, that he would readily give up everything for her.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch