Let’s talk about jazz…and bodies of water

“Lakes are islands for fish,” the poetic thinker Alexander Kluge once said. A clever reversal—the human perspective all too often relates everything to our own species—and at the same time, the phrase captures the summer habits of Leipzig’s residents all too well. After work and on weekends, they swarm into the Neusee landscape—from the classic spot with C. to the barbecue lake—seeking out these watery enclaves, sheltered from the scorching asphalt and the bustling hustle and bustle of the big city. The next two months probably wouldn’t be bearable any other way…