DrK
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | United States |
| Interests | languages, literature, history, movies, politics, good food, gramophones |
| Favorite movies | That would be a long list... Some movies that would definitely feature on it are Charlie Chaplin's "Gold Rush" (1925), Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954), Harold Ramis' "Ground Hog Day" (1993), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "Das Leben der anderen" (2006), but also Joseph L. Mankiewicz' "Cleopatra" (1963) and Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" (1979). Some more recent movies I've particularly enjoyed are Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), Danny Boyle's "Yesterday" (2019), and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All At Once" (2022). |
| Favorite music | I most often listen to Jazz and Swing, but I like a lot of very different music, from Classical pieces like Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" to more obscure gems that I find on 78 rpm records. |
| Favorite books | Depends on the weather. Some books that I've read more than once: Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey;" the poetry of Catullus; Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"; Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." I've read and enjoyed most of Philip Pullman and Michael Chabon's works. A favorite in German was Patrick Süsskind's "Das Parfüm." More recently, I've hugely enjoyed mystery novels like Oliver Pötzsch's bestselling "Hangman's Daughter" series, which is set in the 1660s in Bavaria, and Volker Kutscher's "Der Nasse Fisch," the inspiration for the "Babylon Berlin" series on HBO (except better than the TV adaptation). I also like reading historical non-fiction like David Nasaw's "The Last Million." |