CURRENT MISSION

»Always look on the bright side of life ...«

ABOUT ME

Open minded, friendly, curious, humorous & enthusiastic (if it's worth it)

PHILOSOPHY

»Teenage dreams, so hard to beat« (the first two lines from »Teenage Kicks« by The Undertones (1978), also epitaph of famous DJ John Peel)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host and surfer

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Tried it in August 2014 with some unsuccessful CS-requests in London (very late answers) and finally made it with Airbnb .... +++

Interests

Art, graphics, satire, caricature, typography, architecture, design, politics, meeting friends, visiting exhibitions, museums and the Frankfurt Book Fair, MUSIC (hearing it – and learning about it, especially rock music history), flea markets (offline/online), the knowledge galaxy of the internet, reading, writing, drawing, photographing, building architectural models, and much more ...

• arts
• writing
• books
• architecture
• design
• politics
• reading
• drawing
• music
• rock music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

[TV series]: »Ally McBeal«, »Boston Legal«, »I Dream of Jeannie«, »M.A.S.H.«, »Game of Thrones«, »Breaking Bad«, »Twin Peaks«, »Midsomer Murders«, »Monty Python's Flying Circus«, »Spacecenter Babylon 5«

[Movies]: Most of Woody Allen's and Monty Python's movies, »Lord of the Rings«, »Harry Potter«, »Star Wars«, »Stranger than Fiction«, »The 5th Element«, »Down by Law«, »Night on Earth«, »Pulp Fiction«, »American Graffiti«, »Harold and Maude«, »Rocky Horror Picture Show«, »Blade Runner«, »Starship Troopers«, »Themroc« ... + + + ...

[Music]: David Bowie, Roxy Music, T. Rex, Muse, Florence and the Machine, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Who, CSN&Y, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Alan Stivell, Andreas Vollenweider, Arrogant Worms, Franz-Josef Degenhardt, Progressive / Blues / Art / Indie / Folk Rock etc., Blues, Jazz, Folk, World Music, ... + + + ...

[Book authors]: Paul Auster, T. C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Theroux, Nik Cohn, John Updike, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Robert Gernhardt, Uli Becker, Georg Stefan Troller, Julian Barnes, Fritz J. Raddatz, Tilman Spengler, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, ... + + + ...

[Artists]: Ronald Searle, Saul Steinberg, Tomi Ungerer, Paul Flora, Hans-Georg Rauch, Walter Hanel, F. K. Waechter, Quino, Kurt Halbritter, Joost Swarte, Alexander Calder, Carl Barks, Bill Watterson, David Petersen, André Franquin, Horst Janssen, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudi, Hector Guimard ... + + + ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 1976 I travelled four weeks by InterRail trough Great Britain, from Penzance up to Thurso. In the youth hostel in Inverness I unexpectedly got the address of John Lennon's maternal aunt Mimi (Smith). I took my chance, went down to Poole (in Dorset), and finally found myself sitting on her sofa, being invited for a cup of tea, talking with her about John and taking pictures in a room with some of his memorabilias, including all Beatles Gold Records from the early years. It was an absolutely amazing experience. Last year I rediscovered a handwritten notice from Mimi, with John's address in New York – the place where he was shot, just four years later ...

Teach, Learn, Share

Looking back on more than five decades, it has to be pure wisdom, isn't it? ... :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany