i´m interested in lot of things: nature, music, literature and film and everything that blows your mind...I am a writer and reporter about expeditions and earth systems. My career means a lot to me, as well as my band and the people close to me. i love to travel, all once in a while i get restless so i have to go somewhere far or not so far away.

trying to serve the industry as little as possible.
live the emanzipation.
connect the rational with the emotional.
mhh, uh, yeah, that´s basically it, really.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

!!!!!!!!!ABOUT COUCHSURFING!!!!!!!
As of 15th of May 2020, the management of Couchsurfing has decided to make the website into a paid/subscribe service. It names Covid19 as a financial threat and asked "the community" to step in. To achieve this, they set up a paywall, effectively blocking out thousands of users from their profiles, depleting them from their contacts and references without so much as a warning.
This is inacceptable.
For me, these are the 2 outrageous points: First, the subscription fee is a huge amount in some places, effectively excluding people. Second: How dare they appeal to the community after making everything worse in the past years? From taking away groups to focussing their marketing on advertising free accomodation – and many other moments, where they completely ignored the mindset and wishes of the community.
Even the intransparent way they are ransoming people into paying now, shows their utter disregard and misunderstanding for their own users and product. Let’s move our critical mass somewhere else.
I would be very happy to see you again on trustroots.org or bewelcome.org. here are my (still incomplete) profiles:
https://www.bewelcome.org/members/Zoga
https://www.trustroots.org/profile/zoga

++++++if you have trouble logging into your cs account because it´s behind the paywall+++++++
type this into your browser: https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/YOURUSERNAME, then click on something and log in when asked to. worked for me and other, but dont know how long it will.

Interests

see above

• literature
• music
• hiking
• nature

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting the North Pole on a science expedition

Teach, Learn, Share

always keen to learn new things and happy to share my knowledge about writing, storytelling and media, cooking, music and nature

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will cook you a meal and can tell tons of stories about the crazy and beautiful places and people I met as a reporter

Countries I’ve Visited

United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India, United Kingdom

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