- Listening Music. I'm a great CD and LP collector. I like The Clash, The Doors, Queen, Little Feat, The Who, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, U2, ELO, The Cure, The Pretenders, The Fleshtones, UB 40, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, The Cramps, The Stray Cats, Dave Edmunds. John C. Fogerty & CCR, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, AC/DC feat. Bon Scott, Thin Lizzy, Golden Earring, Nazareth, Ian Hunter Band, Guns'n'Roses, Slade, Sweet, Marc Bolan & T.Rex, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, The Ash, Nirvana, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Carole King, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Mitch Ryder, Jackson Browne, Rod Stewart, Cat Stevens, Westernhagen, Can, BAP, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Litfiba, Gianna Nannini, Adriano Celentano, Lucio Battisti, Elvis Presley, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill, Bizet, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann, Lizst, Chopin, Tchaikovski, Prokofiev, Rachmanninov, Schönberg, Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven.
- Sailing. I go sailing in the Tyrrhenian Sea on a boat called "Ghostbusters 2". This year we have won the Livorno-Rio Marina (Elba)-Livorno Yacht Race and had some second positions in other regattas.
- Writing. I'm a free lance journalist for several German, Italian and Internet (Suite 101) magazines.
- History. I like history books, history maps and historical Computer games. I liked Pirates, Civilization, Waterloo and 1602. My favourite authors are Herodotus, Thukydides, Polybios, Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Ibn Battuta, Nietzsche, A.J.Toynbee, Will & Ariel Durand, Indro Montanelli, Barbara Tuchmann, B.H. Liddel Hart, Golo Mann, Alfred Grosser and Arnulf Baring. My favourite fiction authors are Apulejus, Grimmelshausen, Swift, Casanova, Scott, Balzac, Dumas, Poe, Twain, Stevenson, Goethe, Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hauff, Büchner, H. Heine, Balzac, Tolstoj, O. Wilde, R. Kipling, K. May, F. Dahn, Kästner, Brecht, T. Mann, Böll, Dürrenmatt, Eco, T. Wilder, C.S.Forester, C.Bukowski, S.Benni and many more.
- Science Fiction. I like S.F. and Fantasy books and films. My favourite authors are Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, F. Douglas Adams and Marion Zimmer Bradley. My favourite movies are The Time Machine, Barbarella, The Sleeper, Dark Star, Zardoz, Star Wars, Blade Runner and The Fifth Element. And I like Raumpatrouille Orion, Star Trek and that old Jack Arnold stuff, too.
- Cinema. Some of my favourite movies are The Wind and the Lion, Blues Brothers, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rude Boy, Yellow Submarine, Dr. Strangelove, Slaughterhouse 5, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Perfect World, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart, Schtonk !, Heimat, Amarcord, Down By Law, Mediterraneo, Underground, Cleopatra, Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, The Great Dictator, To Be Or Not To Be and many more.
- Games. I like playing Chess, Nine Men's Morris (Mühle), Poker, Black Jack, German Skat, Monopoly, Scotland Yard, Trivial Pursuit and strategy games like Risiko and Diplomacy. Together with my friend Karl-Wilhelm Welberts I have developed some new strategy games (Concert of Powers 1914).
- Sports. I sometimes play Football (Soccer for Yanks !), Volleyball, Tennis and Ping Pong and I like Jogging and Swimming. My favourite football team in the German Bundesliga is Borussia Mönchengladbach.
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