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Overview

  • 12 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Russian
  • 66, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • founding an International School in the Center of Germany
  • University of Tennessee, USA; IEP, Paris; Maastricht Univ...
  • From Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
founding a bilingual international school: https://international-school-germany.org/

understand people in their social environment

ABOUT ME

I am father of five children who are now also at an age to get to know the world.

PHILOSOPHY

What is the mission of mankind? This question I cannot answer philosophically but by meeting human beings when they are open, i.e. when they travel or host.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to find kind hosts for my family including myself and offer the same to others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Over the years we have lodged many people. We were hosted a few times, e.g. in Kassel and Bad Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt for my program on social development, in Madrid and near the Hahn Ryanai airport. Thanks to all hosts.

Interests

music, arts, theater, justice for each individual, for families, and for nature

  • arts
  • theater
  • environment
  • clubbing
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • economics
  • teaching
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Stanley Kubrik "2001" etc.
Classical Music, Bruckner, Lutoslawski, and improvisations.
Rudolf Steiner books and on anthroposophy, Dostojewski, Shakespeare etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I opened an International School in Kochi/India.

Teach, Learn, Share

For the last 20 years I have been a class and foreign language teacher. Before I was selling insurances and working on social philosophy.
In October 2008 I received my PhD in economics from Maastricht university.
I would like to learn other languages, right now especially Spanish and Russian.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Can we walk while talking?
It is only 45 minutes to hike to the Wartburg and only 7 minutes to walk to the Bachhaus and the ICE train station.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, India, Scotland, Switzerland, United States

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