You have to be a teacher, don't you? You warm up with vocabulary tests, have the class carry two pallets of copy paper up to the first floor for a WhatsApp group picture, and before school closes everyone watches "Shakespeare in Love" together. Things are relaxed for the teacher at Nuremberg's Scharrer-Gymnasium. And then, on this sunny Monday in mid-January, his own novel will also be published: "Love on Bad Days". Yes, you would have to be Ewald Arenz.

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