CURRENT MISSION

Write a short story collection

ABOUT ME

I'm curious, open-minded. I'm interested in other people, other people's experiences.

PHILOSOPHY

'One being's freedom ends where another being's freedom begins.'

'To be modern, I said, is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one's world and oneself in perpetual disintegration and renewal, trouble and anguish, ambiguity and contradiction: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air. To be a modernist is to make oneself somehow at home in the maelstrom, to make its rhythms one'€™s own, to move within its currents in search of the forms of reality, of beauty, of freedom, of justice, that its fervid and perilous flow allows.'
'To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -- and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.'

- Marshall Berman

'I've never understood why straight fiction is supposed to be for everyone, but anything with a gay character or that includes gay experience is only for queers.'

- Jeanette Winterson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can show you around in Berlin.
Have a drink, have a bite, go somewhere nice.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All in all positive.
A comfortable way to get in touch with people, which is especially nice when, afterwards, you stay in a foreign place for longer.

Interests

I'm very interested in literature and theatre (arts in general).
I take pretty much pleasure in ballet, which I have started last year.
I want to restart playing tennis soon, which I haven't done in years.
Also get my guitar string fixed!

• arts
• literature
• beauty
• ballet dancing
• environment
• drinking
• guitar
• tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Music of good singer-songwriters, for example
Regina Spektor, Stromae, Joy Division, The National, Saez, Edith Piaf, Raphael

Michael Haneke: Amour, Toto le héros, The Lion King

Ilse Aichinger: Die größere Hoffnung, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, Jurek Becker, Georges Perec
The Time of Our Singing, Stichwort: Liebe, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
Joann Sfar, Marjane Satrapi

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Incarnate a character

Teach, Learn, Share

On verra bien! :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany