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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German
  • 51, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Photographer, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Traveller
  • Diploma Photography and Design, Fulbright Scholar at Miss...
  • From Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn, see, listen, connect and teach

ABOUT ME

I am a photographer and filmmaker working on social and environmental long-term documentaries around the world. Before starting my career I have been travelling for a few years in Asia.
Now I am teaching a lot of multimedia storytelling, film and photography.

PHILOSOPHY

leave your comfort zone, be honest and fair and follow your dream

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been staying with CS in places such as Texas, Bielefeld and Bamako.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Since childhood my family always hosted students from all around the world. I have been sleeping on many couches everywhere but also in 5 star hotels and holes in the ground of Aral Sea, with Jesuite Monks in India, Buddhists in Nepal, Muslims in Bangladesh and the temple of Amritsar.

Interests

Cotton, Narcolepsy, travel, land use politics, film, photography, reading, learning, discussions, politics, economy, meeting people and connecting them

  • photography
  • documentaries
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • communications
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Fight Club, Bitter Moon, Angel Heart, Kill Bill, Once Upon a Time in the West, Gangs of New York, City of God, Darwins Nightmare,
I love all sorts of music, mainly jazz, tango, fusions with Hip Hop and Techno, and 70s Krautrock

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I slept with 7 snoring fishermen in a tiny hole on the beach of Aral Sea, walked in hip-high snow in Nepal and lost myself in Old Dhaka, lived in an Mombasa slum...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach a little bit about visual language and communication, media theory and photography.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Réunion, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States

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