CURRENT MISSION

Next big mission: South East Asia next year

ABOUT ME

I'm a very open-minded guy, uncomplicated, with a lot of humour and positive energy.

My big passion is music! I decided to go for music by accident - thanks again Jack (Kerouac)!!! - on this wonderful hitchhiking trip years ago!
Most of the time I'm spending by playing, listening, thinking about or writing music.... however that's not the only thing i do of course...

I'm a livetime hitchhiker. I travelled through whole Europe several times, only with a small backpack, a sleeping bag, my swiss army knife, some bread and water and enjoyed the freedom and the abstinence of luxury...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm looking for nice places (with nice people in it) to stay or to just explore the cities with locals.
in return i can offer a little but very cozy place to share here in the wonderful Prenzlauer Berg, a very central and hip ;-) part of Berlin. I can show you the best places for a good and cheap dinner or drinks around

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

not yet CS experiences, but same thing outside this community.
Friendly people invited my everywhere and I invited some as well here to Berlin to share my little cozy flat.

Interests

most of all music, but I'm also interested in nearly everything new, adventurous, exciting...
cinema, photography, good food, long conversations with a good red wine, Berlin clubs, llive concerts, dancing, relaxing in Berlin's summer beach bars, travelling around the globe with no money - again: I LOVE hitchhiking!

• arts
• writing
• singing
• theater
• design
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• dining
• breakfast
• wine
• red wine
• drinking
• clubbing
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• backpacking
• golf
• animation
• hitchhiking
• beaches
• music production

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: everything not hollywood-like, Tarantino, Lynch, Rodriguez, Jarmusch...
music: very mixed
Pop (acoustic or electronic), some Rock, Jazz, some Folk, Minimal Electro, Classical, Funk, some Latin...
Tom Waits, The Dissociatives, Coldplay, Mickey 3D, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Depeche Mode, Björk, Anthony And The Johnsons, Air, Serge Gainsbourg, Amy Winehouse, Trentemoller, Blur, Goran Bregovic, Kraftwerk, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Hun Huur Tu, Glenn Gould, Stravinsky, Bach, Mussorgskij, Debussy, Howard Shore...and many many others
Let's say: everything but metal, german folk music and stupid techno (but good electro is great!)
books: not so much time because of so much music, but from time to time...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once i hitchhiked through the south of Spain, a young friendly bank director picked me up with his big car in the burning summer sun after waiting hours for a ride, invited me to his place, showed (and invited me to..) almost everything around (Gibraltar, great places on the cost, where you stay in front of the African continent, to the right the Atlantic Ocean, to the left the Mediterranean, breakfast in a golf club, dinner in a 5 stars hotel...)

Then - after me coming back from a little trip to Morocco - I couldn't stay again in his home, so he payed me a really big hotel suite (with golden toilet paper holders:))...

Next day I continued hitchhiking and - spended the following night under a bridge like a hobo (because of a sudden heavy summer rain and nothing around - just the highway and this bleak bridge in the lonely Spanish Sierra)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach
-music (piano, music theory, ear training, arranging, composing, producing),
-sound design (synth programming, sampling) or
-animation (with flash/photoshop) http://www.youtube.com/user/effenberugeru?feature=mhum#p/a/u/1/L8G6NdOWlIY
-hitchhiking (best places to stay, imagine people's character after the first look...)
I'm open to learn everything new exciting....

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany