You are welcome to stay at my apartment when I'm out of town, e.g. July 15-16, July 20-24, August 8-15, August 25-27, September 7-10 and September 22-24 2017. Contact me if you like a quiet and clean place in the heart of the city. Check out these great free maps: https://www.use-it.travel/cities/detail/dresden/ (get a printed version at my place)

CURRENT MISSION

What I enjoy about meeting new people, is listening to their stories. Especially I want to find out what people recognise as "normal" or part of their everyday lives. It's fascinating to me how everyone has different principles and understandings of their world. I like to be surprised with different world views!

ABOUT ME

I look colourful and probably stick out everywhere I go. This doesn't necessarily mean I'm a show off, it's just that I want to express myself, everywhere I go, I'm always honest, you can rely on this. When I'm happy, when the sun shines, when my life loves me, I can't help myself: I have to wear red jeans, yellow shoes and pink shirts! And if it should snow or rain some day or the fog is increasing: You'll probably recognize my laughter. It's loud, it's outstanding, it's lovley, just like me. By the way: I'm totaly of the opinion that I'm able to do everything as long as I really really want it!

PHILOSOPHY

The question is not if, but how I'm gonna do things.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As an artist, I am travelling a lot. Mostly I travel to visit people I have met before - sometimes long time friends and other times new people I met at festivals or on one of my many trips. Sometimes spending more than ten days "at home" only occurs three times a year. Sometimes a trip to Prague is closer than a trip to Hamburg – so instead of staying with people I know in the North of Germany, I am looking for new friends close by. It's important to enjoy the connections one already has; yet building new ones is more exciting!
On the other hand, I am an excited host! The city I currently live in – Dresden – is a beautiful town. Despite the far-right-wing/racist movement that started here in 2014 #Pegida, I want to encourage people to come and visit this beautiful landscape with its baroque and contemporary culture!

You may have noticed that I only have two references on couchsurfing.com - that's because I am part of a huge network mostly based in the European and Pacific region. Monthly travelling and staying with friends or their friends - has been a given for me in a very long time now! Since I can usually "help my self" using facebook and group messaging, I mostly use couchsurfing.com for meeting new people in my current town or during travels to destinations I have never been to and thus no contacts to friendly hosts yet.

Interests

Sitting together with new strangers in my life, exchanging youtube-videos from our childhood popcultural memories. (Probably both of us know the early backstreetboys by heart).
I also enjoy cooking together with many people - but am rather skilled in fruit/vegetable/cheese situations that any of the German clichées one might think of.
Since I enjoyed playing games and theatre as a kid, I am a professional games instructor today! At any time I've got a good idea in my pocket - might it be for three or thirty people. I betcha!

• singing
• dining
• music
• museums
• forest
• card games

Music, Movies, and Books

Half of the yellow sun (Chimananda Ngozi Adichi)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands