ABOUT ME

I like wildflower meadows, hiking, reading, flea markets and second hand stuff, colours (especially green, turquoise, purple and orange), old houses, cats, cows and bees, greogorian chants, cinnamon chewing gums, black-and-white movies, Lieutenant Columbo, indian food and a lot of other things...

Interests

alternative culture (cinema, music, arts, living), linguistics, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, litterature, nature, homeopathy

• cats
• arts
• culture
• dining
• indian food
• movies
• reading
• music
• hiking
• psychology
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Kusturica, Wim Wenders (the early ones), Jarmusch, Kieslowski, Almodovar, Hitchcock, Tarantino, E.& J. Coen, Kaurismäki, Ozon, Cassavetes, Ken Loach, Angelopoulos, Fellini, Guédiguian, etc.

Music: classical (Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Débussy, Ibert, Fauré, Satie), Funk, Reggae, Raï, African (Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Laye Sow etc.), Balkan, Klezmer, Fado, Jazz (Chick Corea, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Stan Getz) and other groups like Nirvana, RHCP, Beatles, Soundgarden, Rage against the machine, Beastie Boys, Beck, Mano Negra/Manu Chao, Ramones, Béruriers Noirs, Bad Religion, les têtes raides, les négresses vertes, Iva Bittova etc. etc.

Writers: Christa Wolf, Heinrich Böll, Max Frisch, John Irving, Truman Capote, Anna Seghers, Bertold Brecht, Judith Hermann, Alice Munro, Birgit Vanderbeke, Doris Dörrie, Sartre, Diderot, Ignazio Silone, Zeruya Shalev...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Switzerland

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