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Overview
About Me
I am from Berlin where I have lived most of my life. I also lived in Barcelona and San Francisco for some time. Those cities are awesome since folks from around the globe are always all over the place.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
My flatmates and me had a lot of surfers in Barcelona and it was always fun meeting people from different parts of the world!
There should be definetely a couch in my new flat wherever I am gonna be!
Interests
playing guitar and listening to good music, trying to learn different languages, reading some smart or just nice literature, theater, playing soccer.
- literature
- theater
- reading
- socializing
- music
- guitar
- soccer
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
I read the classics like Dostojewski (amazing dude), Tolstoi, Cervantes, Hugo but also modern stuff like Kafka, Beckett, Hemingway, Camus (awesome guy), Sartre, Schnitzler, Hesse, Kundera, Steinbeck or Neruda up to contemporary authors like Boyle, Frantzen, Roth, Coetzee, Kertéz, Marquez and Kenzaburō Ōe.
I am also interested in spiritual sutff.
Movies: Waltz with Bazir (what a movie!!!), Festen, Breaking the Waves, Los Olvidados, Akira, City of God, Det sjunde inseglet, La vita e bella, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, The thin red line and all of Woody Allen.
I am mostly into electronic music and Indie (also some folk).
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I spent three months in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho. It was a thrilling experience since it was just complete different from Europe and from Berlin in particular. I met very fascinating people and saw beautiful and very sad things.
Countries I’ve Visited
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Lesotho, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Germany, Spain, United States