Nadlerstraße 3 69117 Heidelberg

Hannes Breuer

Hannes was born on 28 March 1970 in North Charleroy, Pennsylvania, USA. Parents: Hans and Rosemarie Breuer; 2 brothers: Klaus and Florian.
Hannes obtained his first schooling on board of his parent's sailing yacht which was his home for five years. He crossed the Atlantic as a four year old: from Dakar, Senegal, to Martinique in the Caribbean. Hannes attended schools in Tenerife, Bequi (Caribbean), Fischbach and Alzenau (Germany), Vienna and Neunkirchen (Austria).
His family immigrated to South Africa in 1981. Hannes matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium in 1986 and travelled for 8 months through Europe and Canada.
He studied Chemistry and Physics at Stellenbosch University (B.Sc. in Applied Physics, 1990) and finished his studies at the Technical University in Berlin with a Masters degree (Dipl. Ing. in Applied Physics, 1995).
Hannes was manager of his own software company in Berlin, before he accepted a position as Technical Lead (Project Leiter) at Siemens Medical Solutions in Heidelberg, where he now works as System Engineer.

Languages: Afrikaans, English, German, some Spanish.

By the way: Hannes is 'Norbert' in his mother's children's book in 3 languages (so far),
Zauberer Zettelwitz vom Tafelberg - Table Mountain Wizard - Die Towenaar van Tafelberg (first published in 2010 and 2011)

Hobbies: Cats, Karate, Rock climbing and unicycling
Favourite books:
Science, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Iain Banks: "Espedair street" and "The wasp factory"
Neil Asher: The skinner
Robin Hobb: Assassin's Apprentice: The "Farseer" Trilogy: Book 1
Royal Assassin: The "Farseer" Trilogy: Book Two
Assassin's Quest: The "Farseer" Trilogy: Book 3
Patrick Rothfuss: "The name of the wind"
Patricia Briggs: "The Mercy Thompson series" and Jim Butcher "The Dresden files"
Vernor Vinge, The peace war, Rainbows End, The Witling, A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep
Joan D. Vinge, The snow queen
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods
Peter S Beagle, The last unicorn
E.R. Eddison, The worm Ouroboros
Peter F. Hamilton, Night's Dawn trilogy
The reality dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's hammer
Barry Hughart, The bridge of birds
Jonathan Stroud, The amulet of Samarkand trilogy (Children's book)

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