"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Friedrich Schiller, The Maid of Orleans, 3,6

"The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbour."

Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell, 4,3

Influences:

• The idea that for my generation and for the following ones, there is nothing more important than to create a united Europe in peace and freedom
• The civil, liberal and cultural traditions developed throughout centuries of Frankfurt am Main, the old town of Fairs and Emperor Coronations where I was born
• My Austro-Hungarian-Czech blood from my mother's side or the Viennese Blood obviously inherited from my grandfather and my beloved Vienna itself with its history, its tradition, its literature, its music, its art...
• The old and mostly revolutionary town of silk workers and gourmets, Lyon, capital of the Beaujolais and maybe the most beautiful French town where I spent a lot of time during my youth
• The humanistic education of the two classical secondary schools Lessing and Gagern in Frankfurt
• The studies of Romance and Slavic languages and literature at the universities Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe in Frankfurt and Lumière Lyon II

At present:

• Programmer in a public authority in Berlin
• After having moved from Frankfurt to Berlin, I explore the former and new German capital
• Principal interests besides the Belle Epoque: Cinema, music, literature, (European) football (fan of the SC Freiburg and of Eintracht Frankfurt)