CURRENT MISSION

Never stop learning.

Actual pics of my couch will follow.

Vegetarian, non-smoker, non-drinker, photographer, videographer, traveller, nature-lover, ...
I love to meet people from all over the world and learn from them.

PHILOSOPHY

Beeing worried is a waste of time and energy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to enrich this community by beeing the best host and the best guest I can be. I'm always more interested in people then places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted and met couch surfers from all around the world to show them the good places. It was allways a great experience.

By surfing their couch, I got to know some new friends that felt like old friends to me.

Interests

Paragliding, surfing, sailing, english poetry, pool billards, archery, astronomy, movies, reading, writing, creating things, all old thinks and of cause old cars and motorbikes (where did all the good designs go?), making music, having good discussions and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!

• writing
• poetry
• photography
• film making
• chocolate
• vegetarian
• boating
• movies
• reading
• billiards
• cars
• socializing
• juggling
• music
• surfing
• sailing
• paragliding
• archery
• astronomy

Music, Movies, and Books

I love documentations. Also I like independent productions and some blockbusters (as long as they don't try to replace a storyline with explosions). Some friends of mine were involved in making short-movies. Of cause I love these movies too.
You need names? OK: Into The Wild, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gloomy Sunday, Brazil, Man from world, The Fall, Bankog Dangerous (not the Holiwood-version), Bin Jip (by Kim Ki Duk), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (by Kim Ki Duk), Monday (by Sabu), Drive (by Sabu), Stranger then Fiction and many many others.

I love the comedy of George Carlin

Music: classical music (but not all kinds of), Cohen, Sophie Hunger, latin music, some independent rock, ...
When I don't want to be relaxed I listen to rock-music and my friends never get weak to drag me to Motorhead-concerts :-) but I'm not really a concert-person unless I have a seat and nobody tries to spill his bear on me. I loved the Yamato-Concerts, that's the kind of music you have to see live. For all other music: I'd rather sit in a nice car, driving a nice road listening to it. Or to spend the night sitting outside with friends, watching city lights and listen to the imperfect sound of a car-radio.

Books: Water Music, Shogun, Perfume, Don Quixote and all the poets from Shakespeare to Robert Frost, also good comics and graphic novels, I love Calvin&Hobbes!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A young bird on his first flight flew right out of its nest and sat down on my shoulder.

I flew 5 metres high while carrying a inflatable boat on my back when I was a child. The winds were too strong.

I was on stage with Tito and Tarantula (just for one song).
I played with the Scorpions while beeing part of an orchestra.

I got lost in Death Valley.

I drove through Las Vegas with an Elvis-Impersonator on the backseat of my (rented) Harley.

I flew with buzzards.

I shot 6 Nineball-Breaks in a row.

I let a stone step more then 20 times.

I meditated until all physical pain disappeared.

I learned to walk again after a heavy motorcycle accident.

I layed 3 or more hours at night in a meadow in the middle of a heavy thunderstorm just to write a better poem about it.

I can touch my nose with my tongue.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music: If you have an instrument, we can jam.

Juggling: I have taught 3 people by now whithin one day how to juggle with 3 balls. So I guess I'm not a bad teacher in that discipline...

I also can teach you how to play pool billards. I'm not a bad player and can teach you some easy trick-shots to amaze your friends with (and drag some money out of their pockets) when you're back home.

I can teach you how to shoot with bow and arrow.

What I Can Share with Hosts

To say it with the words of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

"And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away."

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany