CURRENT MISSION

Finding the man without qualities

ABOUT ME

I'm 32 years old and I'm living in Berlin (just moved from New York back to Germany). I'm currently a PhD-student at Columbia University in New York, while writing my PhD thesis in Berlin and working as a culture correspondent for several newspapers and magazines. My focus is on literature, music, theatre and movies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I think, the best way to travel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In have been in Basel (Switzerland), Warsaw, Gdansk and Krakow (Poland), in Frankfurt (Germany), Vilnius (Lithuania) and I have met really nice people and comfortable couches!

Interests

literature, sociology, musicology, politics, music, theater, bars, beer, wine, la france, poems, journalism, feuilleton and movies of corse!

• culture
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• wine
• beer
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• journalism
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Inglorious Basterds (movie), Antichrist (movie), Synecdoche New York (movie), The Big Lebowski (movie), The Man without qualities (book), Infinte Jest (book), Japandroids (music), Arcade Fire (music), Mumford and Sons (music), Bob Dylan (music and books), The Correcitons (book) and Freedom (Jonathan Franzen rocks), Doktor Faustus (the opera from Feruccio Busoni), Gustav Mahlers 8th symphony (Sinfonie der Tausend, how amazing! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zScwFBMTs ), Heinrich von Kleist (especially his theater pieces like Die Familie Schroffenstein), The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Feuilleton), Serbian Literature, Stasiuk, Wojciech Kuczok. Some songs I like:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD64ruAb8vshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDhGbsVhJc---And please figure out: What makes a man a man? Maybe this: http://vimeo.com/12163258

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have seen Mexico, that was an adventure...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland, United States