Gerd Joe Fes

Born in 1951 in Paderborn (Westphalia), graduated from high school there in 1971. From 1971 to 1973 and 1975 to 1979 study of sociology, philosophy, and psychology in Marburg and Munich, graduating with a diploma in sociology. Intermediate, two years of interruption of studies, filled with several months of factory work, two trips to India and Turkey, each also lasting several months, as well as two imprisonments due to violations of the narcotics law. He worked among other things as a swimming pool attendant, factory worker, research assistant, lecturer in adult education, programmer, business consultant, tutor, and interviewer and for almost two years as a PLA (Product Localization Associate) at Microsoft in the U.S.A. He is now widowed and lives in the state of Brandenburg near Berlin.