Some General Information:

Since my time is limited, and the huge amount of requests I´m getting every day, I will decline every copy and paste request I receive. Also requests that don´t fit my Couch description (number of travellers, pets and so on) will be declined without further Explanation.

That may seem harsh, but please understand, that you are requesting to stay at someone´s private home for free, so please have the courtesy to read through the Profile and write a personalized request, so I can get to know you and see if we are on the same page. Thats nothing than simple politeness, thank you very much.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I´ve always been very doubtfully about social networks like facebook, twitter or couchsurfing. So I didn´t participate in any of those, but I changed my opinion concerning couchsurfing because it is the best way to travel around the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosting and surfing have always been a pleasure, how else do you get in contact with locals and share their insights?

Interests

Sports: Weightlifting, climbing, skiing, everything you can do on mountains in general.

Music: Drumming (For about 6 years, mostly metal), my band:
Darkwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwell)
playing the piano (Learned it nearly 6 years, but I prefer the drums), going to concerts and at least one festival a year.

And of course travelling, why else should I be here?

• pets
• concerts
• festivals
• recipes
• traveling
• music
• piano
• drums
• surfing
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Good old thrasy films like braindead, the evil dead, plan 9 from outer space, bad taste or meet the feebles (Peter Jacksons early movies are great though).
I also enjoy modern thrash films which basically do the same thing like for example monster man, black sheep or dead snow (seriously: dead nazi zombies! A film can´t possibly get any better!)
But I also like all time movie classics like tarantino movies, schindlers list, L.A. confidential, the untouchables and so on.

I´m spending quite a lot of time with reading, but i prefer "classic" books, like Frankenstein, Dracula and have just finished Moby Dick. I like some german writers especially Thomas and Heinrich Mann. Heinrich Mann´s "Der Untertan" is my alltime favorite book already. Also Erich Maria Remarque has written some remarkable books.
I also like fantasy like the lord of the rings or the silmarillion which I sure have read about six or seven times, and sometimes I read a Wolfgang Hohlbein book, although his stories are always basically the same.

Music... I prefer the "hard" metal/hardcore stuff with distortions, screams and growls like machine head, august burns red, as i lay dying and of course the old veterans like metallica, slayer and judas priest.
But from time to time I also enjoy music from mozart and bach and go to organ concerts. Depends on the mood.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Venice
Petra in jordan and the big wall in china
WW II ruins in northern denmark
Working with a big team for the skijumping in Innsbruck

Teach, Learn, Share

I would be happy if I could improve my drumming and climbing by couchsurfing. I also would be grateful for special recipes from future surfers or hosts. In exchange I offer of course all those things, if someone wants me to.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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