2018
Has not started yet, but I hope it will continue with surfing, skiing and finally end up working for an exciting company! So far I can announce a three month trip to Indonesia starting in June after my university program in Shanghai. But until that, enjoy reading through these adventures!
2017
This year is packed with work, surf trips, university and traveling around. Skiing in Innsbruck, surfing in Morocco, Portugal, Mexico and Ireland this year motivates me for writing my Master Thesis about the urgent and important topic of a "Circular Economy". I have probably never made so much out of one year, never traveled as much and I will definitely be tired by the end of 2017.
2016
Doing events in Munich, Barcelona and Nizza made me feeling sad to leave the company after this six month internship and being already accepted for my Masters Program in Innsbruck, Austria, I make use of my gap and travel all Central America, Mexico up to California, where I met my friend Chris in epicenter of surfing, San Clemente, CA. This trip is one of my greatest so far. I meet great people, surf the best waves of my life and make incredible experiences one would never witness by just laying on the couch. Feel grateful that life gave my this opportunity.
After a long flight back to Munich, I start studying International Business and Management at the Management Center Innsbruck and work as much as possible until the first snow falls. Skiing and a little bit of snowboarding until end of December being back in sunny Portugal.
2015
In the end of last year I started working for the Munich based startup BTL-Creative, doing Sales and Acquisition of new companies for our products. I do really learn a lot within this creative mindset of the company and after a month of traveling and mostly surfing Indonesia for my first time, I start working at GoPro in the Event Marketing Department. One of the toughest and greatest working experiences so far, enjoying the time a lot and being always on the run. End of December I fly another time to Portugal to chase waves and sun with my Eisbach buddies.
2014
This year I travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for my last semester of my Bachelor Degree. Rents are expensive, but living by the ocean is priceless. I visit Brazilian friends in Rio and in South Brazil and many friends from back home visit me in the "Cidade Maravilhosa". University is only two days a week, but its all taught in Portuguese, which causes my struggle at the beginning. After two months and some practice and help from my local student colleagues, I can speak Portuguese fluently and University starts being fun. In June I start traveling the north of Brazil and make my way down from Sao Luis to Salvador, stopping for some matches of the German Football Team during the World Cup. Itacaré is the place where I see Germany winning the world title and I stay there surfing for one month. After a short stop in Rio, I fly to Ecuador for one week, see friends and family and meet up with my Dad in Santiago de Chile. After four weeks of backcountry skiing in the southern Andes I fly home and get my Bachelor Degree.
2013
End of January, I finish my internship and I travel all over New Zealand with a friend for hiking, surfing and discovering the great landscape. After that, I make my way through the east coast of Australia, I meet up in Thailand with two friends and have a three day layover in Dubai.
And then back to business in Munich, university, jobbing to make money and of course surfing the river in Munich. The last quarter of this year isn't exciting, as I write my Bachelor Thesis.
2012
This year is totally packed with university. However, it doesn't prevent me working in Milan during the Fashion Week and right after it writing ten exams within eight days. I start working at BMW as an working student and travel to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and the USA. River surfing at the Eisbach in Munich really becomes my passion and I apply for internships all over the world where the ocean is close. In September 2012 I fly to New Zealand, where I start working for Hapag Lloyd as an intern and I live by the ocean in Takapuna, Auckland.
And this time I really started surfing as much as I could, after work, on the weekends, even before work in order to get better. I make great friends in NZ and buy a car which breaks down three times.
2011
This year is totally packed with university. After a trip to Morocco with my dad climbing and skiing the highest mountain of North Africa, I also start surfing at the river waves in Munich, after I had my first surfing experiences in Ecuador last year. In September, I make my way to France for the first real surf trip. And the last three months of the year are again dedicated to university.
2010
After one year abroad I felt really happy to see all my family and friends again and it feels like nothing has really changed. I probably have now a obsessional neurosis as I consistently check whether my wallet is still in my backpack. After one year, my English has become proficient, I have learned to speak Spanish fluently, I have made so many experiences that I need at least a month to digest them and will start studying from October now Industrial Engineering.
2009
I have just finished my A-Levels at the Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium St.Ottilien and will fly to Ecuador in August 2009 to fulfill my civil service abroad in a kinder-garden / pre-school. I have no idea what I will expect in South America, I have never been outside Europe so far, speak a little school English and five words of Spanish.
Let's do this!
1989
I'm born on July 30, 1989 in Munich, Germany. Finally.
