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About Me

I was born near Ansbach in Germany, but I live in a small and peaceful village in Switzerland, not far away from Schaffhausen. Here I work as a priest (www.kirchelohn.ch. I'm proud to have the best confirmation class of the whole world. Sometimes I organize concerts in our village church. It's always a good experience to meet new friends and musicians from other parts of the world. I like the quiet country life, but I also lived and worked in the city of Basel and enjoy holiday times, when I can travel to Ireland, Scotland or other nice and interesting places on God's planet. Perhaps I will also get to Narnia some time.

My Interests

Reading good books, movies, football, music, travelling, meeting friends, church and Christian faith

I'd like to meet:

C.S. Lewis and the other Inklings in Oxford, but unfortunately it's too late now! I also would like to meet some of the early Christians from the first century or Zinzendorf, who lived in the 18th century. Mike Scott, Marco Bode, Moya Brennan, Calum MacDonald, Susan Howatch, and a lot of writers, actors, musicians and modern saints from our time! And I'm very happy about all fine people I know already!

Music:

Maria Solheim, Sarah Brendel, Cara Dillon, Phil Keaggy, Anna Ternheim, Sophie Zelmani, Sixpence None the Richer, Over the Rhine, Bruce Cockburn, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, Runrig, Capercaillie, Van Morrison, Bruce Guthro, Iona, Waterboys, Luka Bloom, Tommy Sands, Naked Raven, TheGlue and, and, and.....

Movies:

Chariots of Fire, Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, Shadowlands, Billy Elliot, A Walk to Remember, The Straight Story, The Road Home, Secrets and Lies, Stand by Me, Dead Poet's Society, Mr. Holland's Opus, Babette's Feast, Green Fried Tomatoes, A River Runs Through It, As it is in Heaven, After the Wedding, Little Secrets, Saint Ralph, Tsatsiki, movies for children from Scandinavia.... Last movies I watched: Becoming Jane, Lions for Lambs, Elizabeth, The Kite Runner, Juno, Once

Television:

I prefer the cinema and television seems to be a waste of time for me - but news and football are always interesting

Books:

The Bible, C.S.Lewis, Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, Susan Howatch, Adrian Plass, Jane Austen, Ernst Wiechert, Selma Lagerlöf, Dorothy Sayers and other good detective fiction, books about spirituality and a lot of novels from other writers. The Kite Runner, The Wind in the Willows, Guus Kuijer, Marjaleena Lembcke, good children books in general. I'm a bookworm. This week I read: Albrecht Gralle, Der dritte Tempel

Heroes:

Jesus and his friends all over the world and through all the ages