ABOUT ME

open minded, curious, engaging, adventorous, helpful, friendly, compassionate

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because there is no better way to travel and to get to know other countries.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed in many countries already in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Western Europe, Africa, Middle East. I have mainly hosted people in Munich, Germany.

Interests

Volleyball, Football, Swimming, diving board, cliff jumping, skiing, mountainbiking, Aggressive Inline (I love rather extreme stuff), playing Piano, listening to music, playing and watching drama, good books, history, international relations, good discussions, good food (especially Asian), meeting good friends.., travelling, learning languages, meeting interesting international people and people from other cultural backrounds, good bavarian beer, parties, doing crazy things..

Music, Movies, and Books

Films by directors such as Bertolucci, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Balabanov, Cohen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Lars von Trier, Fellini, Visconti, Fassbinder, Goddard, Scorcese, Coppola, Bergman, Kislovski, Polanski, Waida, Bunuel, Louis de Funes, Pierre Richard, Werner Herzog, Fritz Lang, Woody Allen, James Bond Films etc.

Music: British and American Indie Rock, fine electronic/techno/deep house/minimal, Russian Rock , French Chanson, Fado, ethnic music of all kinds, classical piano/chamber music/symphony, opera (E.g.: Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Bruckner, Bach, Liszt, Albeniz, Wagner, Puccini...)

Books: Svetlana Aleksievich's books, Stanislaw Lem: Solaris; Camus: the myth of Sysiphos; Sartre: Nausea; Leonardo Padura: The man who loved dogs, Kundera: E.g. The unbearable lightness of being, the joke; Alan Watts: The watercourse way, Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf, Narziss und Goldmund, Demian; Chechov: The Black Monk; Dostoyevsky: The brothers Karamasov, Crime and Punishment; Kafka: Amerika; Schlink: der Vorleser, Solshenitsin, Bulgakov, Bunin, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Schiller, Camus, Sartre, Knut Hamsun, Ibsen, Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig, Arkady Babchenko, Riszard Kupszczinski etc.
Innumerable books on history and politics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Randomly ending up being VIP guest at annual Votkinsk (Russia) summer festival, holding a speech and nominating beauty queens in front of thousands of spectators and TV.

Following a former minister on his election campaign in Guinea Bissau.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Germany, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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