CURRENT MISSION

© Exploring The World Since 1971 ;-)

ABOUT ME

Curious, love to travel and meet other people, honest, outgoing. Growing up in Leipzig/former East-Germany i came to the United States to work as a tour leader for European travel companies in 1996. Since 2000 i pursue my goals in visual effects as a model maker for the film industry, building miniatures for movies such as "The Dark Knight", "Die Hard 4.0", "The Aviator", "Inception", "Shutter Island" or more recently for stop-motion animated features like "ParaNorman" and "KUBO And the Two Strings".
But above all i love the adventure of traveling. On my journeys i want to learn more about other cultures and was very fortunate to have met a lot of interesting and nice people over the years.

PHILOSOPHY

"Half the fun of travels is the aesthetic of lostness." Ray Bradbury
"Die beste Bildung findet ein gescheiter Mensch auf Reisen." ("The best education for a clever person is found in travel.") J.W. von Goethe
"The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page." Aurelius Augustinus
"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone." The Dhammpada
"Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun each year." Unknown Space Traveler
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." Anatole France
"The journey, not the arrival matters." T.S. Elliot
"The most dangerous world view is the one of people who did never go see the world." Alexander von Humboldt
"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." Lao Tzu
"Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables us to recognize a mistake when we make it again." Unknown Lost Traveler

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had a great experience with Couchsurfing so far and love this way of meeting new friends.

Interests

Traveling, Movies, History, Camping, Reading, Hiking, Volleyball, Music, Theater, Snowboarding, Exploring unusual sights and many others

• books
• theater
• education
• modeling
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• camping
• snowboarding
• volleyball
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Lawrence of Arabia, Amadeus, The Aviator, Alien, The Big Lebowski, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Clerks, Kill Bill, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Duel, The Prestige, When Harry Met Sally, Lord Of War, Falling Down, One Night At McCools, The Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Crash, Vertigo, Psycho, The Breakfast Club, Das Boot, The Beach, American Beauty, Anger Management, Chinatown, Casino, The Name Of The Rose, A Night At The Roxbury, Geisha, The Good Guys, Burn After Reading, Out Of Africa, The Lifes Of Others, Jurassic Park, Ex Machina, The Silence Of The Lambs, Flight Of The Phoenix, Back To The Future, 3:10 To Yuma, Shrek, The Incredibles, Capricorn One, The Empire Strikes Back, The Color Purple, Kontroll, True Grit, Secretary, Up In The Air...

BOOKS: Mostly literature written by explorers like Francis Drake, Chris Columbus, Alexander von Humboldt, Ibn Battuta, Woodes Rogers, P.H. Fawcett, Wilhelm von Rubruk, Cabeza De Vaca, Marco Polo, Hans Staden, William Dampier, James Cook, Ludwig Leichhardt and alike. But also books like The Parfum, 1421 or works written by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Karl May, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Sun Tzu, Edgar A. Poe, Alexandre Dumas, Gavin Menzies, Friedrich Gerstaecker

MUSIC: I love music! And i like to listen to a wide range of different styles in music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I took part in the Leipzig protests that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It was a life changing experience!
Got lost at sea once and shipwrecked on an Indonesian island.
In 2012 and 2018 I did two 6-month trips around the World, backpacking through Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belize, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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