Hi there, I'm Thomas. I live in Konstanz, Germany, since early 2017 and it's starting to grow on me. I'm here because I like getting to know people and hearing interesting stories.

ABOUT ME

There's not much I could not imagine being interested in or changing my opinion about.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

By now, I think I hosted a good bunch of people in my old apartment in Stuttgart and a few more here in Konstanz. As all people, they were interesting and kind, I never had anything to complain about and I tried to ensure a good time to anyone who got there. I'd say it worked out fine.
Right now, I cannot host people. I live with my partner in a not too spacious apartment, very sorry ahout that. Hope to change that again sometime in the future :)

Interests

- Theater with children and people who are hard to tell apart from them. I founded a group in Stuttgart which I had to leave behind when I left the city - but they're still going strong. Turns out they're also pretty good without me...
- Literature. I am teaching poetry classes at a local evening school and love reading it myself. Mostly modern German poetry, but I love international writers whenever they cross my path. I organized literature festivals and reading events and am currently planning a new series of readings.
- Blues harp and some guitar. I'm this close to being an intermediate. Seriously.

• literature
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• cooking
• blues
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

I like music with good lyrics. Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, Father John Misty, Gregory Alan Isakov, something along that line. Fine, truth be told, when I feel very teenie-nostalgic (or have to do mindless work) I still take out the good old HIM records.

Love Wes Anderson movies and most of Woody Allen and Fatih Akin. Germans: Soul Kitchen, Lammbock (best German stoner film. Yes, there is such a thing), Gegen die Wand (Head-On).

I am really into reading, so books don't stay on my shelf unread for too long. Wolfgang Herrndorf wrote some great books, Sasa Stanisic is one of the greatest current German writers. Grit Krüger's amazing :) There's Toni Morrison, Herta Müller. Some classics are also nice, Saint-Exupéry, Wilde, Rilke, Brecht, Dürrenmatt. And in the modern poetry area I go with Jan Wagner, Ulrike Draesner, Alan Ginsberg, Peter Rühmkorf.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cultural work was pretty fun. I started a theater group in Stuttgart and directed for a while, we had a great time. And I organize a small yearly literature festival in Stuttgart, that's always a great pleasure, you get to read a lot of very interesting stories.
The rest is sunsets, heights, the ocean, moments with friends, falling in and out of love - stuff not entirely suitable for description, I guess.

Teach, Learn, Share

During the last years, I heard and read a bit of postcolonial theories, which I find highly interesting. I'd love to talk about that topic, I think I still have a lot to learn there.

Things I can teach - I am good at explaining physics to the non-physicist, and I think there is a good deal to be learnt from the scientific disciplines in terms of the reliability of our thoughts on the world and hypotheses in general. Don't just give the sciences a reputation of being mathematical and cold - the great scientific minds were always voyagers into darkness and amazement. If you want a funny story, look up Ettore Majorana on wikipedia.
And I have learned to cook a nice amount of vegan dishes, that's a thing I am always happy to pass on.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Well, I'm a decent cook by now, at least with recipes that I'm familiar with.
I think I'm good to talk to if I'm not sleep-deprived or absorbed in a logical puzzle - speaking of which, I know some really good ones, so if you're into these, I could show you some.
I'm pretty self-reliant, I like to go out into the city alone, so you don't have to worry about entertaining me. But if you have the time, I would of course very much enjoy to get your viewpoint on your city.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands