We have a customer who firmly claims to be Ludwig van Beethoven.

Hendrik Meyer has taken our website offline again. After finally receiving the system upgrade, there are advances on one side but also new setbacks on the other. "I have to really get back to it," he writes to me. "Almost 700 hits in one day just on the tour team page and it’s still not running smoothly. This won't do, not with me!" I naturally accept his decision.

I receive a call from Vienna. An excited female voice: "Are you Mr. Wallburger? We have a customer here who firmly claims to be Ludwig van Beethoven, but cannot pay and gave me your number." She sent me a photo via WhatsApp.

I replied to her that it's alright and I would settle the amount with an instant transfer. She was relieved, laughed, and commented before ending our call: "The world is crazy and we are right in the middle of it."  

I immediately forward the photo to Johannes Frauenschuh, who had sheltered Beethoven in his apartment, to see if he knew what the master was up to. Johannes replies after a few minutes: "He seems to have spun around his own axis long enough and seems ready for human contact."