Frager Stories

"Now that the stick in our wheels is gone I want to move to an ever closer union with you my dear Allemagne."

(Based off the film Suite Francaise) The invasion of France is a success. France is trapped in the village his vacation home is located in, Belgium, a fugitive country lives with him, and the aloof Germany is quartered with them. Germany is France's enemy, and his troops have made his people miserable. If only blaming Germany for everything were that simple. Living with the enemy and learning about his enemy each and everyday makes France rethink his thoughts on Germany as a person and as a culture. It also makes him rethink his feelings on Germany. It is indeed a problem when one must ask themselves "who needs friends when I have enemies like you?", and you fall deep for that very enemy.

Ludwig Beilschmidt works at a cafe in Berlin while he's waiting to go to college as an engineer. Francis Bonnefoy came to Germany as inspiration for his art and his writing. Both meet each other one day a learn of each others story and Francis is fascinated by Ludwig, and would like to get to know him better, using the German as inspiration for his story. But what if Ludwig became more than just Inspiration? Perhaps, a friendship, or even a relationship could bud out of these interactions and the coffee days they spend together invents something bigger. But what of the troubled German's past?