I am studying music in Basel and am absolutely in love with it. Meeting people from all over the place, coming together driven by the same passion for the music we play has been a wonderful experiance.

I love to listen to other people’s stories, to share experiences, to learn about different philisophies of life and just generally to get to know other humans from anywhere.

In my everyday life I spend a lot of time making music (mostly music from before 1750 :-)) or hanging out with friends and planning the next project that we want to do together. I love going for walks, spending too many hours reading, doing yoga and practicing meditation, baking cakes and cookies or cooking tasty vegetarian food. I am interested in how to take any steps to lead a more sustainable life and try to be mindful about the things I consume and how I consume them. In writing this, I know that I am quite privileged to be able to enjoy all of these things. I am interested in politics and in social issues because I believe that we still have a long way to go to achieve social justice.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To me, couchsurfing makes a lot of sense because it makes it possible to actually meet people when travelling somewhere. To stay in a surrounding that shows one reality of the life in the place one is visiting instead of a ready-prepared hotel experience that is easily replicated in any other place.

Interests

• arts
• books
• coffee
• yoga
• knitting
• music
• piano
• cycling
• ecotourism
• food
• trekking
• reading books
• activism
• learning
• harpsichord
• recorder
• bassoon

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
the list is too long to write here so only an extract
- early baroque music (at the moment I‘m especially in to exploring the music from that time in Germany)
- Biber, Hotteterre, Forqueray, Bach, Telemann, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, Shostakovich,...
- Neil Young
- Nina Simone
- Kurt Elling
- Vulfpeck
- Stevie Wonder
- ...

Books
- Harry Potter (!!)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- anything by Toni Morrison
- anything by Haruki Murakami
- anything by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- currently reading (finally!): Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yesterday I had an amazing cup of coffee. Today I will probably go for a walk along the Rhine breathing in the fresh air and looking at the snowy rooftops. So that’s pretty nice...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland