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Burre, whose first name was Jan – Christian never used his nickname – would lumber along, a clumsy bear cub in his black overalls, grasping the rubber handgrips firmly in his work-mittens, muttering and humming, trundling the wheelbarrow with its pneumatic tyres over the cobbles of the road that, years ago, had been tarmacked, past the med centre, from which the bedridden soldiers in brown camouflage uniforms shouted snide comments, the maintenance unit, the tailoring workshop, and swung round, singing by now, towards headquarters, behind which, screened off by a few low-rise sheds and the swimming pool, lay the regiment’s coal supply.
Burre, der mit Vornamen Jan hieß – bei seinem Spitznamen nannte ihn Christian nie –, tapste, ein ungeschickter junger Bär in Schwarzkombi, die kappenlosen Gummigriffe fest in den Arbeitsfäustlingen, murmelnd und summend voran, ließ die luftbereifte Schubkarre über die Pflasterköpfe der vor Jahren asphaltiert gewesenen Bataillonsstraße hüpfen, am Med.-Punkt, aus dem die Bettlägerigen in braunen Trainingsanzügen hämische Kommentare riefen, der Instandsetzungskompanie und der Schneiderei vorbei;
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