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Overview

  • 27 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • writer
  • i studied literature, people and things
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

writing, understanding humanity, complexity, dedicating my life to beauty and knowledge, being sensitive with every living being on this fragile planet.

ABOUT ME

made out of light and shadow. i am a professional writer, author of a novel, stories, theater plays, essays and newspaper articles. writing for me is metamorphosis, transcending my own little self and becoming someone else, putting on the skin of the other, seeing the world from endless different perspectives like in a hall of mirrors. at my core there is curiosity. traveling (around the world and in my mind) is my way of being.

i eat mostly vegan, sometimes vegetarian.
fully vaccinated against covid-19.

PHILOSOPHY

it's all about encounters, communications, about missing or facing a person, sensing, perceiving, finding a moment of comprehension, of shelter, being aware of the other's movements, seeing his branchings, his disaccords, contradictions, doubts, catching yourself inbetween, in the silences, the looks, accepting the gap between the other and yourself.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i am grateful for all the great cs-experiences i already had. found beautiful friends. cs makes me a cosmopolitan being, everywhere at home on this planet.

Interests

Literature, art, politics, philosphy, music, nature, travel, complexity, chaos, social movements, climate change, history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, sustainable life, astronomy, geology, theoretical physics, economics, evolution, silence, loving, jumping from one foot to the other, unexpected laughing...

  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • singing
  • dancing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • guitar
  • communications

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers: Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Herta Müller, Julio Cortazar, Robert Musil, Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Peter Handke, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett and many others...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

loved, wrote a book, directed a play, made music with others

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Martinique, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Azerbaijan, Spain, United States

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