CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying miraculous life

ABOUT ME

I love to have interesting conversations. I like travelling, learning languages, reading, walking through foreign lands..
And, well, I try to participate in society.. to be pragmatic and contradict the philosophic stereotype (as I studied philosophy).
On the other hand I love to do something just because I'm in the mood for it. It's life.

PHILOSOPHY

Work in progress.. (always and intentionally so)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to host anyone who needs a couch anywhere I have one. And if I travel I try to contact fellow couch-surfers to meet and get to know them.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Till now I had throughout very good experiences, even though not terribly many. I will definitely try to change this in the future and have more contact with other couch-surfers.

Interests

I like atmospheric evenings with chess, red wine and interesting stories told by congenial people. I like to wander around in yet unknown cities, to read books on philosophy or anything. I love to dangle in the hammock on my balcony, to learn about history and to speak other languages than German. I like Taekwondo. And, well, I appreciate the whole CS-project.

• culture
• books
• dancing
• tango
• wine
• red wine
• walking
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time
Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
Stanislaw Lem: The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Solaris, The Invincible
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Village of Stepanchikovo, Demons
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: The Dangerous Liaisons
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy: War and Peace
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov: Lolita
Haruki Murakami: Pinball, 1973, A Wild Sheep Chase
Robert Graham Irwin: The Arabian Nightmare, Satan Wants me, Exquisite Corpse

At the moment, I like these movies: Sin nombre (Fukunaga), Zwartboek (Verhoeven), Lucía y el sexo (Medem), Delicatessen (Jeunet), Leolo (Lauzon); as well as almost every movie by Fatih Akin, Pedro Almodovar, Emir Kusturica, Monty Python, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier.

Music: all kinds, i.e. Leningrad, Messer Chups, Ska Cubano, J.J. Cale, Abdel Halem Hafez, Beatles, Can, Lee Perry, King Tubby, Paolo Conte, Soap Kills, Skatalites, Tom Waits, Jay Hawkins and almost anything by Putumayo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A Tango I saw in Valencia. There were elderly couples dancing in a plaza, a small orchestra. It gave me suddenly the heebie-jeebies and I had tears in my eyes. It was wonderful. That was the moment I decided to travel to Buenos Aires.

Teach, Learn, Share

Philosophy, history, culture, languages, ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United States

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