For all of my almust 40 years in this world, as a "multiregionalist" I´ve avoided being pinned down to a single geographic or linguistic german home. Living on Lake Constance for more than 15 years, though, has slowly left its welcome marks on me.
fter several years of studying mathematics and philosophy in Constance, Ghent, and Toronto, the latter city threw a wrench into my plans. In order to experience the vastness and beauty of Canada, at the end of my year studying there I biked all the way across the country and spontaneously and irreversibly mutated into a bicycle traveler. Subsequent semester vacations went for other continents on the same two wheels, and in this way I eventually came into contact with bicycle tourism. I worked for a while at Velotours and Kögel, where I met Klaus, the most motivated bike tour leader in the world. With his know-how and my desire to found a company, we plotted together for so long that eventually Islandhopping was born.
Surprised a bit by the resulting work (and by how much I enjoyed that work), I decided near the end of my university studies to end them without finishing them, and I´ve been trying ever since to prove that those who don´t finish their degrees are the more motivated and successful entrepreneurs.
My responsibilities at ZeitReisen include the strategic planning and decisions, the marketing, the Internet work, and also - although unfortunately only from time to time - leading tours.
Since June 2001 I have been running another tour operator, the Bodensee-Radweg Service GmbH. Living so close to the world´s most popular cycling route gave me some new ideas about products that nobody has sold before and that we have been selling very well since then.
When I´m not working, I like to keep moving, regardless of whether it´s in my plane above the beautiful Lake Constance or walking in the forest, swimming in lake or in the Croatian Adriatic, biking, rollerblading, cross-country skiing, or on my scooter - the most important thing is that the distances are long enough. I
