Ulrike Kriener on "Modern Love Stories..." What distinguishes them from old tales of love? In the past, men and women were restricted in their choice of partner. Connections were arranged. The meetings of lovers were secretive, and love messengers carried longed-for letters to the impatient waiters. And today, in the age of "anything goes," where all forms of love are possible and allowed? And where TV, the internet, and mobile phones make retreating into privacy, into the personal, increasingly difficult? What has changed in the concepts of love? Of course, secret meetings have given way to "dates" at the corner bistro. But have people changed? I don't believe so. The stories I read describe men and women who are insecure, cautious, hesitant, self-observing, and searching, time and again, for that great, overwhelming, clear feeling in which all doubts are resolved.

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