CURRENT MISSION

going away => finding a way ... a thousand mile journey begins with one couch :D

ABOUT ME

I love the funny facebook stickers, I don't care if they're tacky

Oh. And I'm a filmmaker.

PHILOSOPHY

from Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne:
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh",said Piglet, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?", said Pooh, "what do you say, Piglet?"
"I say: I wonder what's going to happen exciting today!"
Pooh nodded his head and thought for a while and then said:
"It's the same thing."

-> Pooh is my personal hero

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i would like to sleep on every couch in every city in every country of the world ;) I can offer a couch-pull-out-bed in my room, too, if there should ever be any reason for anyone to come to Hildesheim :) :) :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

couchsurfing in turkey... and then in Bologna... then Chicago... some of the greatest experiences of my life... I would never have thought that such hospitality exists in the real world...

Interests

everything that's good. dancing, making movies, swimming, singing, swinging, writing, listening, eating...

practically all cultures and all languages!

also all mythology (greek, norse, mayan, indian, japanese...)

good films and especially great series (I'm addicted!)

reading to others or being read to, massaging others or being massaged, giving and getting presents, visiting and being visited... etc. etc.

• arts
• writing
• singing
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• breakfast
• yoga
• flowers
• movies
• reading
• knitting
• rock climbing
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

directors: tarkovskij, wes anderson, miranda july, peter greenaway, antonioni, fellini, p.t.anderson, "little miss sunshine", disney movies... so all kind of stuff really... :)
series: Pushing Daisies, Lost Highway, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Heroes, Girls, Scrubs, Friends, Southpark, Monk, Arrested Development, Community ...and many more...

books...mervyn peake: "titus groan" trilogy, dylan thomas: "under milkwood", nabokov: "lolita", "watershipdown", george elliott, rilke, virginia woolf, robert graves..

music: the best of everything ;), but especially BRIGHT EYES... david bowie, the incredible stringband, the beatles, the hollies, the kinks, gogol bordello, iggy pop, cocorosie, system of a down, ismael serrano, kiko veneno, the notwist, the moss project, dresden dolls, me succeeds, paul kalkbrenner, Mia., daniel cirera... ok, you don't want to read this... ;)

and I love the recording of the "Iliad" of Homer read by Ralf Boysen in german (I wish I could read it in ancient greek though!)

and i love vincent van gogh, egon schiele, antoni tapies, paul klee...

PS: built in one mistake for film and tv nerds and buffs ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

what do YOU think? couchsurfing obviously :P

on the top of a swiss mountain on skiis, clouds all around and snow coming down like diamonds and everything was white as far as the eye could see

climbing britains highest mountain in the lake district (skarfell pike)

highest waves at the seaside of lithuania

ancient ruins rising out of a lake of white cotton flowers in turkey

"the healthy snack" in a thai restaurant in amsterdam and the van gogh museum of amsterdam

the roof in the palacio nazareen in the alhambra of granada

Teach, Learn, Share

I've made up my own language called... Ô... it's VERY difficult, far more difficult than japonese...

I know a bit of yoga, ayurvedan (indian) cooking, knitting, photography, writing and not being scared of making a fool of myself in public :D

I want to learn: more languages! all languages! hang-gliding... sewing... a martial art... horse riding... oh, tooooo much.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My cooking, my short movies I've made, my balcony, my crazy ideas, my trampoline, my favourite hildesheim café with the most amazing pancakes in the world ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, United States