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  • Fluent in English, German; learning Japanese
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Physics
  • Bachelor
  • From Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Profile 55% complete

About Me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

My main reason for travelling is getting to know new people, make friends, and of course visit new places.

Interests

Traveling
Skateboarding
Drumming
Politics
- Activism and Theory
Reading
Nature & Gardening
Cooking (V)
Science
Philosophy
Music
Movies...

  • cooking
  • meditation
  • gardening
  • politics
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • survival
  • music
  • skateboarding
  • swimming
  • science
  • lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- Everything by Toshio Suzuki (Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away ...)
- Interstellar
- The Theory Of Everything
- The Imitation Game
- Matrix
- Lord Of The Rings.....

Books that inspired me a lot:
- Thinking Fast And Slow (Daniel Kahnemann)
- A Short Story Of Time (Stephen Hawking)
- The Demon Haunted World - Science As A Candle In The Dark (Carl Sagan)
- The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)
- The Hidden Reality (Brian Greene)
- Our Mathematical Universe (Max Tegmark)
- Zealot (Reza Aslan)
- The Logic Of Scientific Discovery (Karl Popper)

Books I want to read/finish this year:
- The Kangaroo Chronicles (Marc-Uwe Kling)
- The NSA Complex - Edward Snowden and the path to total surveillance (Holger Stark)
- The Martian (Andy Weir)
- Dialectic Of Enlightenment (Theodor Adorno)
- How To Win Every Argument (Madsen Pirie)
- The Art Of Acting/Thinking Clearly (Rolf Dobelli)
- Methods of Social Work (Michael Galuske)

Music: I listen to a broad spectrum of genres: Classic, Hip-Hop, Ska ,Goa, Metal, whatever fits the current mood

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bycicle Trip from San Francisco to Yellowstone National Park.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can Meditate together, Cook awesome meals (V), surf the edge of chaos, skate (longboard, skateboard) the city/skateparks, discuss the longterm prospects of survival on this planet and other political topics, block a nazi demonstration, go swimming in one of the countless lakes around Berlin...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A small introduction into my perspective on things,

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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