Currently slooooowly traveling home from Quito, EC, where my girlfriend Olga and I had lived the better part of a year.
Besides that I should finally finish my thesis, and there’s some projects to be worked upon to earn what I spend travelling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

First, I like the idea of once in a while doing someone a favour. We all have this couch, this mattress in the corner of our shared flat’s living room. Why not have somebody use it once in a while ;)
Also, quite obviously, Couchsurfing offers so much more than a hostel can. Don’t get me wrong there, there’s a many place I had the hardest time parting from. Still, no hostel ever got me so attached as some of the Couchsurfers at whose places I had the honour of staying, or who crashed my couch.
Before I became aware of Couchsurfing, I had a long history being a member of EGEA, the European Geography Association for Students and Young Geographers. This also kept me from joining CS - I slept on a lot of geographers' couches, on a lot of spatial planners' floors and in a lot of regional developers' beds (turned out my studies _are_ social ones after all).
It’s a natural thing for me to provide friends or strangers with a place to sleep, as it feels alright to ask a friend or a stranger whether he would be able to host me for a night or two or show me around their city.

Interests

traveling
bicycles/snowboards
maps
the mountains and the sea
languages

• cooking
• chocolate
• traveling
• cartography
• geography
• history
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

jeans team postal service mia. rockt the doors 2raumwohnung hugh masekela belle & sebastian dj hype bauchklang ween attwenger ella fitzgerald hund am strand danger mouse st. petersburg ska jazz review paula birne helene funny van dannen stereo total adriano celentano flogging molly the who led zeppelin the vienna scientists satchmo glückskleepflücker miles davis die falschen freunde george clinton christoph und lollo al di meola letters to cleo willie bobo dizzy gillespie ska-p save ferris paco de lucia wir sind helden thievery corporation jamiroquai astrud gilberto moloko mo'horizons blumfeld the pipettes saian supa crew shantel seelenluft the roots calexico waldeck trübi trio peterlicht the raveonettes the raconteurs white stripes hannes orange the strokes kylie minogue rudl tujiko noriko semi peterson ibrahim ferrer sofa surfers eels violent femmes element of crime gotan project cake kosheen fad gadget asian dub foundation depeche mode artic monkeys radiohead kaiser chiefs morcheeba mr. scruff candy beat camp daft punk helmut qualtinger dj dieselboy peter ratzenbeck sportfreunde stiller air jazzkantine adam green they might be giants hans söllner tschebberwooky sarah vaughan solanoid moneybrother the vines marcy playground jack johnson seizu caesars amsterdam klezmers miss li yo la tengo authority zero gertrudis
friedrich torberg erich kästner max frisch hermann hesse ephraim kishon johann wolfgang von goethe erich fried bert brecht thomas bernhard dave barry nick hornby christine nöstlinger jules verne simon singh

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The single most amazing thing I’ve done so far is to leave behind our own countries to spend a year "somewhere else": In early 2015, together with my girlfriend, we left Europe and decided to move in together for the first time in Quito, Ecuador.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching, Learning, Sharing: that’s what all of my life so far was about – and what is likely to be about for the foreseeable future. My core philosophy is to remain curious whatever I do, whenever and wherever. I love to teach – be it classes at my university or workshops with scientific or creative content, and of course I embrace the idea of sharing: sharing commodities, too, but first and foremost sharing ideas, ideals, visions and moments.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I really don’t like to brag, but I think my cooking and pastry skills are excellent – I might even be persuaded to teach you how to bake my (in)famous Sacher chocolate cake.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Cambodia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Finland, Germany

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