1957
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I was born in the beautiful city of Hamburg
in northern Germany. In intervals of two years, my brothers Peter
and Tim followed.
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1963
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My father was hired by a German company for an
assignment in Lagos,
Nigeria, and our whole family moved to Africa in November 1963.
Since there was no German school in Lagos back then, I started
school at the British Corona
School, where I very quickly learned English. |
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1966
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An army putsch took place in Nigeria
that eventually led to the outbreak of the Nigerian
Civil War. The country was not safe any more and we returned
to Hamburg.
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1970
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My father accepted another assignment
abroad, this time in Tehran, Iran, where I attended the German
School Tehran.
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1971
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We returned to Hamburg, where I
subsequently attended the Gymnasium
in Buckhorn.
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1972
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I entered the renowned boarding school Internatsgymnasium
Schloss Plön, where I stayed for two years.
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1974
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We again moved overseas, this time to Wilmington, Delaware,
USA, where I attended Thomas
McKean HighSchool for two years and subsequently studied
electrical engineering at the University
of Delaware.
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1979
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I returned to my home town of Hamburg and worked as
an application programmer for the following ten years, initially
as an employee, later as a freelancer.
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1990
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From 1990 until 2006, I worked for the
Hamburg-based software company On
Time Informatik GmbH, which sells its software products
world-wide. At On Time, I was responsible for marketing, sales and
product documentation. On this job, I used the english language on
a daily basis and utilized various Windows software packages (see Tools).
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2001
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My wife Yvonne and I got married. Early
in 2002, Yvonne moved from her home town of Singapore to join me
in Hamburg, where we have been living happily together ever since.
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2004
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I passed the examination as a certfied translator,
see Certification. Shortly
afterwards, I began working as a translator, see Books.
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