Frankfurt’s Secondhand Bookstore & the Grandpa Owner with Fluent Chin

During my lunch break, I wandered into a secondhand bookstore. The owner was a gentle German grandpa—when he greeted me in Chinese, I was quite surprised! 🤩 We started chatting, and I learned he’d studied Chinese in Taiwan for two years when he was young, then continued his studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. The warmest coincidence? He met his wife—someone from Beijing—in the 1980s. Though they mainly speak German at home (since his wife’s German is better than his Chinese), he’s always kept his love for the Chinese language alive ❤️. In the bookstore, art books fill entire walls. We talked about American Abstract Expressionism after World War II, and he shared his insights with great enthusiasm—he could name so many artists and works off the top of his head 🎨. In the end, I picked four art albums—none of them popular bestsellers, but exactly what I needed for my research 😊. What touched me most? In a financial hub like Frankfurt, he’s run this small bookstore for decades, staying true to his own aesthetics and passions. The grandpa paints too—his style is naive and lively, like a child’s brushstrokes ✨! Watching him calmly organize the bookshelves, I thought: living a life focused on what you love is truly a kind of happiness. I know I’ll visit again often—not just to hunt for books, but to feel that way of life. 📍 Zeil-Antiquariat #LifeAesthetics #MomentsWorthRecordingEveryDay #BitsOfMyLife #LifeIsAnExperience #ShareMyDailyLife #BookstoreRecommendation #BookLovers #SecondhandBookstore #LookUpToArt #DaSuXiaoYaPodcast