One from the trivia department: Berlin newspaper "Der Tagesspiegel" runs a piece about the tennis courts on Cicerostrasse, which are in decay and threatened by real estate speculation. The author, German novelist Peter Schneider, claims that Nabokov has given tennis lessons on exactly these grounds and also mentions the well-known photograph showing him with the Siewert sisters.
 
The text is in German, of course:
 
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/aufschlag-nabokov/1940968.html
 
Peter Schneider:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schneider_(writer)
 
Courts on Google maps (via TinyURL):
 
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wxk7fl
 

Best regards,
 
Christoph Heuke
 
Wiesbaden, Germany
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