CURRENT MISSION

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. That's why I am on a trip around the world - for one year.

ABOUT ME

I like to smile and make people laugh, kitesurfing, art, streetart, graphic novels, skating and learning languages.

PHILOSOPHY

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. - Albert Camus

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on Couchsurfing to meet new people and places, to get to know their culture and learn something new.
Ofcourse it's also a great way to travel on a budget.

Interests

Kitesurfing, skating, art, streetart, graphic novels and languages.

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• partying
• politics
• traveling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS

The catcher in the rye(J.D.Salinger), poems by Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, Slapstick or lonesome no more, Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), Arráncame la vida (Ángeles Mastretta), Misfits (Arthur Miller), For whom the bell tolls(Ernest Hemingway), Rebelión en la granja, Schmetterling und Taucherglocke (Bauby), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath),Willkommen in Katalonien, Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt), Rompepistas (Kiko Amat), Crime and Punishment (Dostojewski),Die unendliche Geschichte, Momo, Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (Michael Ende), Wo warst du, Adam (Heinrich Böll), Tagebuch eines Verführers (Sören Kierkegaard), The myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus),Notes of a dirty old Man, Ausgeträumt (Charles Bukowski), Heißer Sommer (Uwe Timm), Vincent, The Anomalies (Joey Goebel), The great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), Die Physiker (Dürrenmatt), Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Goethe), Nathan der Weise (G.E.Lessing), Ronja Räubertochter (Astrid Lindgren), Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F.), Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, Media control (Noahm Chomsky), Sophies Welt (Jostein Gaarder), Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Lauridds Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke), Das Schachspiel (Siegbert Tarrasch), Dr.Schiwago (Boris Pasternak), Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (Kundera), Im Schatten des Windes(Carlos Ruiz Zafon), Vollidiot, Resturlaub (Tommy Jaud), High fidelity, A long way down (Nick Hornby), Metamorphosis (Kafka), Roman eines Schicksallosen (Imre Kertész), Vielleicht lieber morgen, the perks of being a wallflower (stephen chbosky), Der Steppenwolf (Hesse), Wüstenblume (Waris Dirie), Homo Faber (Max Frisch), Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman), Die Schachnovelle (Andreas Zweig), Andy und Marwa (Jürgen Todenhöfer), The picture of Dorian Gray(Oscar Wilde), 39,90 (Frederic Beigbeder),Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett), Das Beste was einem Croissant passieren kann(Pablo Tusset), Wie viele Leben hat Schrödingers Katze (Mainzer/Audretsch), Soloalbum (Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre), der goldene Krug (E.T.A. Hoffmann), The shock strategy (Naomi Klein), Die kurze Stunde zwischen Tag und Nacht, Israel war immer eine schwere Adresse (Angelika Schrobsdorff), Das neue Schwarzbuch der Markenfirmen (Werner/Weiss), Harun und das Meer der Geschichten (Rushdie), An der weissen Grenze (Jack London), Susan Sontag, Henry Miller,Daniel Kehlmann, etc....

MOVIES

All the President..s Men, The man on the moon, Leaving Las Vegas, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Lucky Sleven, Big, Indien (Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer), Space Odyssey 2001, Merry Christmas, Tricks, The Untouchables,El crimen de Padre Amaro, Amores Perros, Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull,Rosmarys baby, Memento, Rebecca, No sos vos soy yo, Michael Clayton, 1984, Citizen Kane, All quiet at the western front, Clockwork Orange, Borat, Secret Window, Lord of war, The great dictator, the Kid, Napola, Hotel Ruanda, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Burn after reading, Mississippi Burning, we feed the world, Some like it hot, Vertigo, night on earth, Eyes wide shut, Kinder des Olymp, Garden State, Sin City, City of God, Lammbock, Hundstage, Angst essen Seele auf, Silentium, Goya, Syriana, Banditen,Revolutionary road, Analyze this, Dead poets society, Taxi driver , Goodfellas, Scarface, Papillon, Die Fälscher, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Godfather, slumdog millionare, Wanted, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monster, Eiskalte Engel, The Hitchhiker´s Guide throught the Galaxy, Set it off, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the devils advocate, Fight club, Before night falls, The Game, Die Verurteilten, Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran, La vita è bella, Vertigo, Rebecca, The Lazarus project, American History X, The dark knight, Gomorrah, Der große Gatsby, Betty Blue etc..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One amazing experience was living in Valencia, Spain and witnessing the celebration of "Las Fallas" a traditional party of that region. Beautiful statuaries are burned in the streets with a great celebration of life. Building these statuaries takes more or less one year, they are a great work of art, often refer to politics and the best one gets a price and will be placed in a museum. All the others are burned during this great party throughout the city with lots of booze, dancing, fireworks and zest for life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, Spain, United States

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