CURRENT MISSION

to wander lonely as a cloud... and meet other clouds along the way

ABOUT ME

I like to laugh a lot, I love sunshine and the smell of summer rain, I love reading and writing and the theatre and music. I like sarcasm. I'm not very organised but usually get things done in time. Mostly, I am late. I've recently found my passion for trekking - there's nothing better than walking around in pristine nature, carrying a heavy backpack ;-) I'm curently doing my PhD (on contemporary drama) and I'm planning on doing a couple of research stays in England and Ireland. I'm also teaching English literature in Salzburg. I love to travel and I already learnt to love it when I was a little child. I like meeting interesting people. I also like solitude - which is why I usually spend some of my summer walking around and camping on my own, which always leads to memorable encounters with human and animal beings alike.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting (though not at the moment) and surfing

Interests

Hiking, trekking, theatre, books, music, coffee, swimming in lakes, dreaming, especially daydreaming, making up words, laughing, admittedly also sleeping or just lying in the sun, running and walking around with music "in my ears", food!, ...

• animals
• writing
• books
• literature
• dining
• coffee
• running
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• surfing
• swimming
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

brainstorming a random selection of movies, books and music:
The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Into the Wild, Inglorious Basterds, Das weiße Band, Milk, Finding Neverland, As it is in Heaven (Wie im Himmel) etc.
Shakespeare, Colm Toibin, all sorts of poetry (to name some: Rilke, Dickinson, Plath, Frost, Heine...), Brian Friel, Marina Carr, Checkhov, Gaskell, Wharton, Wilde, Jonathan Stroud, and many many more :)
Schubert, Dowland, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, Bright Eyes, John Spillane, Babylon Circus, Leos Janacek, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Verdi, "world music", the old stuff of Sportfreunde Stiller, Wise Guys, Bauchklang, Dave Matthews Band, Feist, Regina Spektor, some Ligeti, some Brahms ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Austria, Ireland