Leo Cappel: 7 books

Like a GuardianLeo Cappel is a Holocaust survivor, writer, sculptor and musician. Born in Holland, he survived the war by going into hiding. Leo studied art at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He worked as an art teacher, as jeweller and as a scuba diving instructor before emigrating to New...

I love Mozart’s music for the Magic Flute, but I’ve never been convinced by the libretto, which was written for him by Schikaneder. I can understand the Free Mason background to the script, but there are too many loose ends. For instance: who - or why - was the “Queen of the Night”? Why was...

1819 ADTwo hundred years ago an enthousiast in the North of the Netherlands accumulated a large collection of recipes and home medicines. An amazing window into a long ago lifestyle. He offered it to a well-known publisher with these words :After many years of collecting, I find myself...

“Dine and Die” is a ‘who-done-it’ play written specifically to be produced at a restaurant dinner party. During the short play Linda is murdered. The murder weapon: French fries fried in peanut oil. (Linda is allergic to peanuts).The audience have to identify the murderer.The cast of...

Elisabeth Augustin, 1903-2001, poet in exile, and Holocaust survivor.One of Elisabeth's poems begins with "why the, nightingale, were you give a voice, if you don't sing?"She never stopped singing. Sometimes gentle, sometimes impassionately attacking any form of discrimination.In...

Imagine a new virus: PIV –Parthenogenesis Inducing Virus. The virus causes young women to become pregnant spontaneously, even if still virgins, and without a man.(Characteristic of parthenogenesis is that the offspring is always identical to the mother. Always daughters, never sons!)Linda...

A group of people from diverse backgrounds share a common dream: to build their own yachts and sail the Pacific. When one of the group, a professional actress, lands the leading role in a major stage production, the others become involved too, and get hooked into theater life. Now they face a dilemma:...