Schloss Ahrensburg consists of three buildings. Entering one of them, the Galerie in Marstall, Katharina Schlüter, the artistic director of the Galerie, tells me they call it an "ensemble" - ein Schlossensemble.
I'm invited to talk on a panel about "the female gaze". It's the final day of the exhibition, which makes it into a Schlussveranstaltung in einem Schlossensemble. It turns out the female gaze doesn't exist, but the feminist one does.
It is the first time I am in Ahrensburg. I make some small talk and ask my panel neighbour, who is a professor of theory, if the same counts for her. She affirms, saying: "I only knew Ahrensburg theoretically."
On the flyer of the castle Ahrensburg a question is posed: "Und wann kam die Ananas nach Ahrensburg?" On my way back home, talking to an English designer, I find out not when but why.
When I am back home at night in Berlin, I watch Poirot. "Hold the castle!" Poirot says to Miss Lemon when leaving the apartment together with Hastings to pursue a murder case.
