My Curriculum Vitae in Hyperlinks
Personal
Education
Trial And Error
Cologne And The Muses
Duisburg And The Psychologists
Bremen Or School's Out for Good
Late Consequences of A Computer Club
Foreign Languages
Hobbies
Friends
Any Comments?
Personal
Georg Böhlen
Family status: married, 3 children
Occupation: Software consultant and developer
I was born July, 21th 1961 in Hagen
www.hagen.de
My great-grand uncle was a famous writer of a village called Dössel,
www.warburg.net/doessel/expo/boehlen.htm
in The Bio-Bibliographic Kirchenlexikon by Traugott Bautz:
www.bautz.de/bbkl/b/boehlein_h.shtml
where also my father, Johannes Böhlen, has his origins.
www.warburg.net/doessel
My mother, Irene Böhlen, comes from the nearby village of Scherfede. If you wanted to go the on vacation you could find good lodging in the district of Hardehausen.
www.haus-varlemann.de/index1.htm
School Time
(until 1980)
From fifth grade until the German Abitur, I went to the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Hagen.
www.thg-hagen.info
At computer club at school, I had my first experiences with computers. Back then, we were actually still punching cards that were processed at the computing center of the University of Hagen.
www.fernuni-hagen.de
In those days I did all my programming in ALGOL-W.
A lot of my spare time I spent in the well assorted music department of Hagen's public library.
www.hagen-medien.de
Trial And Error
This time was followed by a phase of trial and error.
First I successfully completed an internship as a fitter in the training workshop of the former Krupp steel plants.
www.hoesch-hohenlimburg.de/projekt/web2006/hho/HHOWebCMS.nsf/www/de_karriere.html
The first job after school brought me as a packer into the filter trade;
www.putsch.com
and at the University of Dortmund I studied mechanical engineering. However, that only lasted for one semester.
www.mb.uni-dortmund.de
Cologne And The Muses
(1983)
Obviously my artistic inclinations were stronger: An internship at the photo laboratory Bochhammer followed (no link available)
after which I passed the admission exam at Lette Association, a school for photo design.
www.lette-verein.de
also see www.lette-verein.de/fgm/frameset.html
But I did not take any classes there: instead, I enrolled at Professional College of Cologne, majoring in photo engineering.
www.fo.fh-koeln.de
During my college time, I hung out a lot with the musicology students of University of Cologne.
www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/muwi/index.html
That brought me - as a member of the university choir - several times to Bella Napoli.
http://www.portanapoli.de/
During this period I also did an internship at the lighting crew of the Wuppertal Opera House.
www.wuppertaler-buehnen.de
Duisburg And The Psychologists
(1982-1991)
Occasional visits at the labour office
www.arbeitsagentur.de/
nourished doubts about the path of my career. Therefore, after two semesters, I moved upwards the Rhine to Duisburg, where I put up my hearth at the largest inland port of the world for seven years.
www.duisburg.de
I dedicated myself to the study of mathematics and psychology at the University of Duisburg,
www.uni-due.de/mathematik/
engaged myself extensively in students' committees,
http://inkk.uni-duisburg.de/
was student assistant with Prof. Raatz,
Emeritus now, but information is still available via the link above
and with Prof. Heineken.
the following link was down on September 16.06)
heineken.uni-duisburg.de
Lacking in support of the student financial aid office (probably too much trial and error for their taste), money making was my occupation during the semester breaks, e.g.:
as a driver with Inter-Rent (new Europcar),
www.europcar.de
as a taxi driver,
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi
on the coke plant of the Mannesmann tube mills,
www.mrw.de/index-flash.html
with the Andreas brewery in Hagen (at that time still independent, now apparently with the Radegerber Group, along with DAB),
www.1000getraenke.de/test_andreas_pils.htm
at Thyssen AG steel company (today ThyssenKrupp Steel), in the research department
www.thyssenkrupp-steel.com/de/
or as warehouse worker with Westfalia Hardware Mail-order
www.westfalia.de
and many other jobs more. Nevertheless my Duisburg time ended formally correct with the successful completion of the 1st final exams in education for secondary schools.
Bremen, Or School's Out for Good
(1991)
The next station was the Hanse city of Bremen, which is always worth a journey!
www.bremen-tourism.de/intro.htm
At the Highschool in Horn I completed the practical part of the teachers' training,
www.schule.bremen.de/schulen/sarp/Horn.html
which was finished by the 2nd final exams at the "Landesinstitut für Schulbildung" (in those days still called WIS: Wissenschaftliches Institut für Schulbildung).
www.lis.bremen.de
Late Consequences of A Computer Club
With these exams even my extended school time had finished. From 1992 to 2001 I've been operating as a freelance software advisor and programmer, see also History II.
Since 1998 I am living with my family in the countryside, in a small village near Osterholz-Scharmbeck.
www.osterholz-scharmbeck.de
Languages
At High School, I took English,
www.englisch.schule.de/www.htm
French,
www.botschaft-frankreich.de
Latin (w/ certificate),
www.lateinforum.de
and Hebrew (also w/ certificate).
www.hagalil.com/iwrith/indx-iwr.htm
At university I also took Italian. Learning Italian in Italy - the ideal form of vacation!
www.unistrapg.it
During further "linguistic vacations", I also got acquainted with Swedish.
www.alv.se/
Hobbies
Playing music,
preferably on the piano
www.koelnklavier.de
and on the flute (but that's a long time ago).
Listing to music of all kinds - from A like Ancient Music, or B like Baroque music and Bach up to Zappa and other "modern" styles, e.g.
Beatles
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles
Lynyrd Skynyrd
www.rockpalastarchiv.de/concert/lyny.html
Tote Hosen
www.dietotenhosen.de
Reading
Isabell Allende
www.fundus.org/referat.asp?ID=1477
John Irving
www.die-leselust.de/autoren/irving_john.htm
Nowadays, I also go for mystery novels, e.g. by Elizabeth George
www.kaliber38.de/
e.g. by Elizabeth George
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_George
etc., etc.,...
Websites of Friends
Manfred Joh. Böhlen (my elder brother and webmaster)
www.mjb-edv.de
Dr. Dirk Windemuth (always slightly ahead of me...)
www.hvbg.de/d/bgag/wir/mitarbeiter/windemuth/index.html
Johannes Treeck (my Alter Ego during my college years)
www.treeck-online.de
Frank Braatz (companion from the days of math's and physics classes at high school, nowadays a credit card guru)
www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3472030305/qid=1022786477/028-6929946-0231760
Hanno Paul (another companion from those days, saviour of my "Abitur") nowadays engaged as
minister
www.hospizgruppe-buende.de
psychotherapist
www.praxis-habighorst.de
and fighter for peace e.g. with the the "Versöhnungsbund"
www.versoehnungsbund.de
Any Comments?
I hope you enjoyed the little trip through my life (which, by the way, has just fulfilled its 40th year), and I would very much appreciate if you signed my guest book