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CURRENT MISSION

If there is no easy way from the earth to the stars, I will have to find my own one.

ABOUT ME

Being media designer is not just a job I do, it is my vocation. I like creating letterheads, magazines and books as well as taking photos, but nothing comparing to my love for good typography and beautiful fonts.
Cycling is a hobby of mine, which I am not able to enjoy very often. If I had found a choir yet, I would be singing mostly renaissance and baroque music, but as long as that does not happened, I will take my shower head and sing, what ever comes to my mind.

PHILOSOPHY

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” – Seneca

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

There was an empty bed in my flat, so why not share it?
(Besides that I like travelling, so it is absolutely clear to me offering you a place to stay, if you are travelling as well.)

Interests

Music (especially Renaissance and Baroque, but I am open to pop culture and very fond of Power Metal and Ska), cooking, baking bread, everything about design, typography, photography, cycling, trains, camping, playing chess.

• photography
• chess
• classical music
• cycling
• camping
• typography
• early music
• playing chess

Music, Movies, and Books

There is a lot I like, so let’s just begin. (Well, I reduced my choice to a number of just 10 items. It is still a lot.)

Movies/Series: Angels In America, Basta. Rotwein oder Totsein, Clockwork Orange, C.R.A.Z.Y., Donnie Darko. Borgen, Dicte, Orange Is The New Black, Star Trek: DS9, Tatort.

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Friedrich Händel, Svavar Knútur, Ina Müller, Hille Perl, Schandmaul, Andreas Scholl, Radical Face, The Tallest Man On Earth, Herman van Veen.

Books: anything by J.R.R. Tolkien; Bunbury (Oscar Wilde); Das Nibelungenlied; Eine Zeit ohne Tod (José Saramago); Ella Minnow Pea. A progressively lipogrammatic epistolary (Mark Dunn, hardly translatable, but well done in German); In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (Eugen Ruge); Metro 2033 (Dmitri Glukhovsky); Mevrouw Verona daalt de heuvel af (Dimitri Verhulst, first read it in German, but I just do not like the arhythmic German title); Orlando (Virgina Woolf); Spieltrieb (Juli Zeh).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went interrailing to Muzeum Auschwitz and back (a five day trip via Aachen, Liège-Guillemins, Luxemburg, Strasbourg, Metz, Zurich and Vienna) and slept in trains at night. I got to see some very beautiful cities, hardly talked, but met some very special people. Although this trip took place in 2008 it is still as present to me as if it was yesterday.

Teach, Learn, Share

What I can teach you:
– basics on media design and typography
– baking bread

What I would like to learn:
– singing as a countertenor
– playing the guitar
– fixing bikes
– speaking languages (Dutch, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Icelandic, Italian, Lëtzebuergesch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)

What I can so share with you:
– my enthusiasm for renaissance and baroque music
– a glass of wine or two

What I Can Share with Hosts

When you come to stay at my place, my home is your home.
You’ll get to stay in a room of your own and can use the kitchen as well as the fridge and the washing machine. I’ll prepare the bed for your stay and lay out a towel. If you understand German, feel free to read my books.

I am always in for a good talk or some sightseeing in the vicinity of Kaiserslautern.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany