Curriculum vitae

I was born on December 24th in 1966 in the german town Witten - that came rather surprising to me. But by and by I got accustomed to existence, and the following years I spend with efficient occupations, physical excercises and manifold private studies in different fields of knowledge, until I was put to school in Hagen-Rummenohl in summer 1973. I liked the music lessons. Apart from that I found catching butterflies or watching birds more appropriate to my character, until somebody indicated to me that there was a difference between boys and girls - that seemed interesting and I extended my studies on girls, too. In 1976 my family moved to the neighbourtown Breckerfeld, where I came to the "St. Jacobus-Realschule" one year later. Soon I was there notorious as a bad pupil and a great UFO-expert. As such I learned to doubt all of my teachers' words, which was very helpful for my further development.
In August 1981 I saw on TV a movie-version of Shakespeare's "As You Like It". This experience changed my life: The very next day I went to a bookshop and bought Shakespeare's collected works. I decided to become a writer. In school, cheeky asserting that I would go to high-school and to university later, I aroused great amusement among my teachers - until then I used to enjoy my laziness in every first half of a school year and to get my remove by a minimal efficiency increase in the second half. But they should be amazed - I had much to do indeed (after Shakespeare Edgar Allen Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hermann Hesse and others had to be read), but nevertheless I managed to get the qualification for high-school, although my math-teacher tried to prevent this with all his might (and he did have might, because he was the headmaster). He seemed to believe that Humboldt's memory were disgracefully sullied if I would be allowed to go to high-school - well, he had to accept it. In 1983 I came to the "Aufbau-Gymnasium" in Halver. With Schopenhauer and Nietzsche I found my way to philosophy, then I started to read "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx and let my beard grow. When I graduated in 1986 I had a lot of poems, a fragmentary novel and some witty satires of the german chancellor Kohl and certain high-school teachers in my drawer, a fatal love-affair in my heart and a remarkable full beard in my face.
After my graduation I moved to West-Berlin, to study philosophy, german literature and communication-sciences. Soon the stubbornness of the dogmatic marxists repelled me, so I concentrated my studies now on antiquity, in order to study philosophy from its origins on. I studied communication-sciences only as a utilitarian study, but this subject turned out to be even more boring than I expected, so in 1988 I changed from communication-sciences to history. So I intensified my engangement with antiquity, but in order to avoid one-sidedness I studied on the other hand more modern philosophers like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and others. A bad consequence of my subject-change was that I lost my scholarship and had to help myself with earning money. This made my studies longer and longer, because I learned a lot in different lines of business now, but less at the university. - Finally in 1997 I wrote my master-thesis about Nietzsche. Since that time I work as a free writer.