Thank you very much for this kind and warm welcome.

Oh, okay.

Now the recording starts.

I understand that.

So, again, thank you very much for the warm welcome.

And we have three major topics to cover.

So please note down your question in any regards.

We will have time later.

And I have a lot of charts today.

So let's go.

So first of all, a little bit about myself.

I was born in Bodrop, which is the rural area of Germany.

And maybe this is the nicest picture you can get from Bodrop, because it was before that

in every area where a lot of coal was mined and totally destroyed or changed the landscape

in terms of coal mining facilities.

After my abitur, so I've finished school, I was thinking about studying medicine to become

a dentist.

You know, if you tell your parents, what do you want to do?

Well, maybe I will study medicine.

Most of the parents are quite calm and said, yeah, that's a choice, son, let's do that.

So I started studying medicine and dental medicine in Cologne.

But after one seminar, one session of a seminar, I found out maybe that's not the proper thing

to do for myself.

So I looked at what the university is also offering and found cultural anthropology.

At that time, I didn't even know that this kind of discipline existed because you don't

know that at school.

But just for reading the different seminars you could take part in, I was fascinated.

Went to the first seminar by Professor Dr. Michael Kazimiel, which later becomes also

my mentor and I worked with him as a student scientist.

I enlisted for a seminar on cultural anthropology and medicine.

And from that day, I really was hooked with cultural anthropology and the perspective of

it.

Then in the end, I did my magister in it.

And here you can see the title of my magister thesis.

I did two and a half year fieldwork in a chapter of the free mentions in Cologne and dived into

this kind of topics of secrets, conspiracy theories and reality.

So I can tell you Freemason arm, mostly an old men club, they have nothing to do with

a free leisure time.

Therefore, they meet and speak about philosophical texts and drink a lot.

At least that's true in Germany.

In other countries, it might look totally different.

If you look at the history of Freemasonry in Turkey, for instance, it's a completely

other thing.

So nevertheless, if you are interested in this paper or it's published in the Cologne

ethnologische Beiträge and free to download, if you ever want to know about Freemasonry

or their secrets, everything is in there.

But then after I studied cultural anthropology, I had the question, so what now?

And while I was studying, I was also working kind of journalist and published a lot of

text, emerging technologies, consumer electronics and what is next?

And I did this for a couple of magazines.