Christmas in Dresden
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Advertising executive Daniel Richardson is offered a huge promotion, though it means uprooting himself from his comfortable life in Manhattan and moving to Dresden, Germany. As he adapts to his new situation, he discovers what a delight it is to live in the gorgeous baroque city, though sometimes simply buying groceries can be a challenge.
At his local grocery store he meets an adorable something checkout clerk named Dieter. One day, on the spur of the moment, Daniel invites Dieter to dinner. There is something about him Daniel can’t quite explain, a comfort level between the two men that goes deeper than their causal interactions would explain.
While Dieter leads Daniel through Stollenfest, the centuries-old celebration of Christstollen on the first Saturday in December, he confesses he has often been able to see into both the future and the past. What Dieter tells Daniel goes against everything he has been taught to believe, but it oddly dovetails with a deeply upsetting experience he had in a museum shortly after arriving in Dresden. What does this bizarre revelation mean for the two of them?
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Christmas in Dresden - Edward von Behrer
Christmas in Dresden
By Edward von Behrer
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Christmas in Dresden
By Edward von Behrer
One thing I learned very early in my years in advertising is to never be surprised when the unexpected happens. But even so, I confess I was surprised to get the following memo from Human Resources one broiling Friday in the middle of August.
To: Daniel Richardson
From: Melissa Ward, Executive Senior VP
Re: Reassignment
It is imperative you contact me as soon as possible about a new position in our International Division. This is in reference to your response on your intake form.
I read the memo several times, but it still didn’t make much sense. If it was so damn imperative
I speak with Ms. Ward, why the hell didn’t she simply call me? Or have her assistant call me? Or, considering the fact she was an executive senior vice president, have her assistant’s secretary contact me? I had been at Solloway & Kaye Advertising for almost five years, so I had no idea what response
she was talking about. Hell, I didn’t even remember an intake form. But another thing I had learned very quickly about the corporate world was that you don’t ignore memos from executive senior vice presidents. Those people don’t leave paper trails just for the sake of killing trees.
About the time I joined Solloway & Kaye they had expanded their operations into the international arena. Joining forces with some local agencies in places like London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Zurich had turned out to be nothing short of a gold mine, and the decision had been made (by Jason Solloway himself, it turned out) to expand the international division even further. And to do it now. It also turned out that, five years before, on my intake form, I had checked International Division
under the question asking what other areas of the company interested me. I had also listed Germany
and Czech Republic
as places I would be interested in working. (I had also listed France, Italy, Austria, and Australia, but that, apparently, was irrelevant.)
It might have been the dog days of August in Manhattan, with most of the advertising world out sipping martinis or Camparis in the Hamptons or on Fire Island, but it turned out a significant section of Solloway