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Overview

  • 7 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Italian, Spanish
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Attempting entrepreneurship in the tech startup world...
  • Computer Science, Business Administration, Cultural Scien...
  • From Schwitschen
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Get back into travelling again!

ABOUT ME

visited 35 states (15.5%)Create your own visited map of The World

PHILOSOPHY

Still working on this one...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing and BBQs/parties.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All positive, without exception!

Interests

Sports:
Climbing, mountaineering, beach volleyball, slacklining, racket sports, inline skating, golf, skydiving, sailing, surfing, kiteboarding, diving, snowboarding, skiing.

  • meditation
  • partying
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • mountaineering
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • skydiving
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • volleyball
  • golf
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Lost Highway (actually most David Lynch), Days of Heaven, Dead Man, La Jetée, Blade Runner, The External World, Endless Summer, Donnie Darko, Delicatessen, Enter the Void, Schwarze Schafe, A Matter of Life and Death, Man Bites Dog, Pi, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, Baraka, La Bête, Marquis, Barry Lyndon, Papillon, Richard III, Brazil, Apocalypse Now, most Coen brothers, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Chinatown, Bitter Moon, Fritz the Cat, Love Exposure, Being John Malcovich, Yellow Submarine, most Lars von Trier, La Société du Spectacle, Underground, Black Cat/White Cat, Olsen Gang, Nosferatu, Mad Max, Repo Man, Orson Welles, some Russ Meyer.

Music:
David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Atmos, Kraftwerk, wind chime techno, Apparat, Parov Stelar, Legowelt, Berghain techno, progressive house, Swedish trance, cheesy sunday morning goa, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno, Shpongle, Acid Pauli, MGMT, The xx, Melimelum, Barbara Keith, Tim Buckley, Sixto Rodriguez, Leonard Cohen, Fabrizio de André, DJ Hell, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, UNKLE, The Real Tuesday Weld, Curtis Mayfield, Brazilian 60s, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Falco, Bach, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Lili Boulanger, Rachmaninoff, romanticism/post-romanticism, tango (old & new).

Books:
Nietzsche, Hesse, Houellebecq, Paul Valéry, Borges, Pynchon, Julian Barnes, Heiner Müller, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph Conrad, Stefan Zweig, Rilke, Osho, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Jünger, Botho Strauss, Douglas Hofstadter, Sebastian Haffner, Paul Celan, Thomas Mann, Timothy Leary, Faust, Der göttliche Ingenieur, Les Choses, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Le Livre de Monelle, O Banqueiro anarquista, The (South American) Gentleman's Companion (or exotic cookery books in general), epics, myths & fairy tales.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Skydiving, ayahuasca ceremony, meeting people who just click, two weeks silent meditation retreat

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