I was born in the summer of 19xx (censored) in Nordenham, a small town located in the north of Germany. After some years hanging around at diverse schools in Nordenham (--> Realschule I Nordenham) and Bremerhaven (--> Schulzentrum Carl v. Ossietzky) I started my professional training at the Business and Technical Highschool in Bremen . Two years later, in the spring of 89, I came to DESY as a 'fresh-baked' technical assistant for mathematics. When I do not waste my time here with numerical field calculations and all that accelerator-stuff my favorite fields of interest are 'Surfing the Net', playing Badminton, travelling around or reading books lying in a deck-chair on my balcony.