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Overview

  • 29 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Journalist
  • University of Oxford
  • From Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Seeing the world. Meeting folks. Finding out where the wild things really are.

ABOUT ME

I am reliable and can be funny when the stars align. There are two things I do not like:
1. Lists
2. Irony
3. Counting

Interests

I used to make a lot of music, but unfortunately find much less time due to my studies. I like playing football, going to the gym, and I enjoy a good episode of Last Week Tonight, engaging in heated discussions on politics or religion, chilling out to good tunes, or playing social games.

  • singing
  • photography
  • cooking
  • politics
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • history
  • social science
  • football
  • astrophysics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Fall, La Grande Bellezza, Spirited Away, Isle of Dogs, Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Revenant, Big Fish, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Munich, Shutter Island, Memento, Murder by Death, Casino Royale, Into the Wild, 12 Angry Men, Primal Fear, Death at a Funeral, Life of Brian.

Music: Sylo Nozra, London Grammar, Chance the Rapper, Noname, The Cinematic Orchestra, James Vincent McMorrow, Cautious Clay, Bon Iver, Tom Misch, Anderson.Paak, Jordan Rakei, Samm Henshaw, Jungle, Eddie Vedder, Chris Thile, Tycho, Junip, Jose Gonzalez, Rembetiko, Asgeir, Moderat, alt-J, Tame Impala, Husky, Faber, Bilderbuch, Tinush.

Books: Homo Faber, Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, High Fidelity, Seven Years in Tibet, God is not Great, The God Delusion, The Catcher in the Rye, The adventures of Tom Sawyer (/Huckleberry Finn), Die Vermessung der Welt.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was in the Sahara and it rained so much that as far as the eye could reach, there would be nothing but water turning a dry desert into a lake for a few hours.

Walking from Monaco to Menton at night in the pouring rain playing "Who am I?" with good people, while the docking boats appeared like fireflies in the distance.

Driving through Bokor National Park (Cambodia) with a good friend on a scooter, a bizarre semi-abandoned world with dilapidated casinos and empty amusement areas.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music
A good conversation and even better company
Average cooking-skills
Puns & banter on dad joke level

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Laos, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ghana, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Thailand, United Kingdom

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