About

I am Norbert, born in the „golden sixties“, now leaving in the cozy, creative and beautiful Town Fürth, in the heart of Bavaria.

I went to secondary school, did an apprenticeship and made my university entrance qualification via the second chance education. I studied and completed a master’s degree in geography, sinology and political science at the University of Erlangen. After that, I added a few more semesters in studying teaching for high school and finally I became a teacher of geography and economics.

While I rarely got beyond the borders of my hometown in my childhood and adolescence, I began traveling when I started studying in the late 80`s. Traveling became a real obsession alongside my preferences for Brit-Pop and collecting vinyl records.

I studied in Taiwan for a year in the late 1980s, researched my master’s thesis in Syria for nine months in the mid-1990s and lived and taught in Manchester, the epicenter of Brit-Pop, for another nine months in the late 1990s. As a backpacker, I discovered Europe, North Africa and Asia during this time. I spent my sabbatical in and around the South Pacific from August 2016 to September 2017.

Many of my trips took place in times of a predominantly „non-digital world“. I experienced Photography and Lomography of this analogue world with 35mm, medium-format and logo cameras. Sometimes, I developed the pictures I took myself and printed them on paper.

There are now dozens of slide boxes, boxes with paper pictures and negative strips waiting on my shelves, which want to be rediscovered in the next few years. Some of them should find a place here in this blog.