In the Kingdom of the Nightshade

Text and photos: Wolfgang Bauer Sttechäpfel im Kaffee The first time in my life I came into contact as a teenager about a reading with a nightshade plant. In the search for exciting reading material, the memoirs of Otto Mayer with the title "Twenty years at Indian Princely Courts. Indian and Allzu-Indian" (Dresden 1922) came into my hands in the Frankfurt City Library. Mayer had worked for many years as a consultant, private secretary and palace…