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My Space: Bernhard Ritschard’s Lübeck workshop

2025-04-04T09:07:00

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Take a look around the northern German shop

I like working undisturbed with few distractions, so I found a place two miles outside the city of Lübeck in northern Germany. The building is next to a church and the priest occupies around half the space. I worked for five years in a tiny house nearby, where the ceilings were less than two metres high so I had to sit down to play the violin. Then in 2017 I asked if I could move my workshop into the empty part of the church house, and they agreed. So I’ve been here for seven years and I’ve been able to customise it to my own needs…

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