CURRENT MISSION

The Open Society

ABOUT ME

I have a preference for melancholic music and a tendency towards sarcasm and gallows' humour. I can spend hours debating politics, philosophy and psychology, or, if you fancy, bands from upper Bavaria.

In the last 9 years I have moved flats 11 times. Thus I feel home almost everywhere and nowhere...

PHILOSOPHY

"sometimes I fall in love other times I fall asleep" - Unknown

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." - K.R. Popper

"If anyone should hold that œ'justice' means the unchallenged rule of one class, then I should simply reply that I am all for injustice. In other words I believe that nothing depends upon words, and everything upon pratical demands or upon the proposals for framing our policy which we decide to adopt."
K.R. Popper in œThe Open Society and it's Enemies, Vol 1, p19

"We now believe that there are no raw sensory data: all data are cooked!" - Richard L. Gregory

"Wenn alle Stricke reißen, dann hat man nicht mal mehr was zum aufhängen." Volker Pispers

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lots of cool people!

兴趣

[in no particular order] music, history of central and eastern europe, modern literature, epistemology, social and political psychology, language acquisition, developmental pragmatics, evolutionary theory, playing the trumpet and the flugelhorn, html/css/webdesign, photography, cooking.

• literature
• photography
• cooking
• politics
• music
• trumpet
• history
• psychology

音乐、电影和书籍

Literature: Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Dürenmatt, Jurek Becker

Books: KR Popper, P Watzlawick, J Jost

Music: A sheer endless list of obscure independent artists, predominantly from upper Bavaria. Otherwise a fair selection of Rock, Pop, Electronica, Minimal, Jazz, Classic. Portishead, Radiohead and The Notwist always make me happy. Or: http://www.lastfm.de/user/myphrasebook

Movies: Lichter

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Sorry, I'm still recovering. What?

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey

我居住过的国家

England, Germany, Scotland, United Kingdom