From yesterday till today My life has always been connected to sport in a very special way. Before I developed my enthusiasm for water sports I had a lot of fun playing ball games. After several years of indoor-swimming I realized that I wanted to do some outdoor aquatic sports. Among several others I tried the treading-boat, rowing and fishing but always knew that I still had not found just what I wanted. A windsurfing magazine I saw during math in the hands of my classmate in 1987 was to change my life tremendously.

Barbados 1989

The pictures I saw in that magazine impressed me that much that at the very same day I asked my mother to buy me one of those fantastic new sporting tools.

Fuerteventura 1993

It was a cold day in November and the salesman warned me just after the purchase that the weather was too cold to go out windsurfing. So I had to wait until next spring before I could try my new board. I learned windsurfing on a lake near Hanover and from the very beginning I used every minute I had to experience my new passion. Only a few months later I had my first regatta-experience and was happy about my first sponsoring contract. Only my high-school diploma prevented me from dropping everything and exclusively deal with windsurfing.

After my diploma nothing could stop me any longer. The next year I flew to Hawaii, the place I always had dreamed of, and therefore had the chance to exercise during winter. After the first top ten results in European Funboard Cups I decided to do this sport professionally from the next year on. Since then I had been in the Caribbean, South Africa, Chile and Australia for several times. The Hawaiian island Maui had become my secret second domicile.

Maui 1996

In 1993 I started to study sports at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, as I always had been curious about the theoretical parts of sport. Actually everything I do, developed from sport and boredom surely does not exist in my life.

Maui 2000

During summer I go to university and participate in numerous windsurfing events, work on several projects, such as event presentation, journalistic activity or marketing advice. I travel across Europe and during my free time I spend a lot of time with my friends. In the winter months it draws me towards the southern regions of our earth to get to know new countries and cultures and just to go out windsurfing with friends on perfect conditions.

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