CURRENT MISSION

The Open Society

ABOUT ME

I have a preference for melancholic music and a tendency towards sarcasm and gallows' humour. I can spend hours debating politics, philosophy and psychology, or, if you fancy, bands from upper Bavaria.

In the last 9 years I have moved flats 11 times. Thus I feel home almost everywhere and nowhere...

PHILOSOPHY

"sometimes I fall in love other times I fall asleep" - Unknown

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." - K.R. Popper

"If anyone should hold that œ'justice' means the unchallenged rule of one class, then I should simply reply that I am all for injustice. In other words I believe that nothing depends upon words, and everything upon pratical demands or upon the proposals for framing our policy which we decide to adopt."
K.R. Popper in œThe Open Society and it's Enemies, Vol 1, p19

"We now believe that there are no raw sensory data: all data are cooked!" - Richard L. Gregory

"Wenn alle Stricke reißen, dann hat man nicht mal mehr was zum aufhängen." Volker Pispers

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lots of cool people!

Interests

[in no particular order] music, history of central and eastern europe, modern literature, epistemology, social and political psychology, language acquisition, developmental pragmatics, evolutionary theory, playing the trumpet and the flugelhorn, html/css/webdesign, photography, cooking.

• literature
• photography
• cooking
• politics
• music
• trumpet
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Literature: Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Dürenmatt, Jurek Becker

Books: KR Popper, P Watzlawick, J Jost

Music: A sheer endless list of obscure independent artists, predominantly from upper Bavaria. Otherwise a fair selection of Rock, Pop, Electronica, Minimal, Jazz, Classic. Portishead, Radiohead and The Notwist always make me happy. Or: http://www.lastfm.de/user/myphrasebook

Movies: Lichter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sorry, I'm still recovering. What?

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Germany, Scotland, United Kingdom