Hearing Loss / Deafness

Hearing is fading. Sometimes gradually — a conversation that becomes harder and harder to follow, a television that has to be turned up louder, a bird whose voice is missing one morning. Sometimes suddenly — a bang, a silence, a room from which the world has disappeared. Sometimes from birth — a life that moves in a different language, visual, tactile, vibrating, but not acoustic.

Medicine knows many causes for this: degeneration in the inner ear, ossicles that no longer vibrate, nerve pathways losing their conductivity, genetic constellations, noise damage, infections. All of that is real, and all of it needs specialist medical support. But if you are here, you probably sense that there is another level. One on which hearing is not only a matter of the apparatus, but a matter of the life you are leading.