I'm born in Germany and this is where I lived most of my life. I finished school in Sweden and worked for many years in London. June '14 I went on a round trip to Asia, travelling overland and in Summer '15 I returned. I regard myself as a backpacker by heart.

Computers still take much of my spare time. I often investigate some software problem or develop applications for some beneficial projects. I was involved in bewelcome.org, when it was still young, in 2007. For many years I volunteered and developed software for NGOs that work for minority rights and migrants (and volunteered for homeless people). In Summer '14 I was back writing software for bewelcome.org, sadly abandoning all works when departing for Asia.

I'm vegetarian, an avid cyclist and like reading novels, philosophy and other non-fiction and fiction.

I don't think travelling makes one a better person. Life is not short and, looking back, I've generally not made the most out of it. And just for vetoing even more platitudes: Believe me, I dislike meeting new people, I'm neither interested in learning nor fun loving ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Online hospitality exchange had a huge impact on my life and I'm still grateful for the times with globalfreeloaders, hospitalityclub and couchsurfing - so many friends, surprises, learnings!

Interests

tinkering with software, marveling at art, campaigning for human rights, supporting the homeless, traveling, looking for nameless things, cycling, walking along the sea shore, reading novels, meeting kindhearted nonconformists

• arts
• writing
• human rights
• vegetarian
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• cycling
• backpacking
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
long novels, means to drift away; philosophy

Music:
complete silence; rustling of trees; birdsong; contemporary music; folk, strictly traditional music from Middle and Eastern Europe; techno; experimental, hard core, melancholic, all sorts of music

Films:
speed and repetition is so much more beautiful with an apocalyptic outllook: Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio); full of secrets, so distant and still able to infect with its longings: India Song (Marguerite Duras); as the website doesn't ask for theatre, hereby smuggling Shakespeare into the list: Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa); weird and full of life(s): Holy Motors (Leos Carax); oh so wonderfully entertaining: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder); criminals and rebels without any of the shortfalls of their genres: Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I forgot where is home and found it far away.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can juggle, repair bicycles and computers and do the dishes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A smile, stories about all sorts of countries in Europe, Caucasus and Asia.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Moldova, Myanmar, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom

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