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Hello.
I am a German from Westfalia, with Silesian and Pomeranian roots. After finishing my studies of Indology, Linguistics und Journalism in the beautiful town of Göttingen, I came to Cologne in 2002 to learn Tamil. I love living in the big-city atmosphere of provincial Cologne with its friendly people and its Kölsch, the Cologne Carnival and Kölsch. I am a freelance proofreader and translator, and I teach Sinhala at the University of Cologne. My main area of interest is the South Indian region, particularly Sri Lanka, where I have spent many months in the past 20 years. I'm especially fond of Sinhala music, particularly by The Gypsies.
My Contributions
Articles that I have significantly contributed to:
- Sinhala words of Tamil origin
- List of Sinhala words of Dutch origin*
- Sinhala language
- List of Sinhala words of Portuguese origin*
- List of loan words in Sri Lankan Tamil
- Ninon Hesse*
- Tissamaharama*
- Tangalle*
- Backpack Picnic*
- François Lelord*
(The articles marked with an asterisk were started by me.)
To do (as of 2008...)
- Wilhelm Geiger
- Munidasa Kumaratunga
- History of the Sinhalese Language
- Ambalangoda
- improve Sinhala (I'd like to do that on the basis of the Italian article; the construction site is here)
- improve Elu significantly
- improve Martin Wickramasinghe
- improve Ediriweera Sarachchandra
- improve Gunadasa Amarasekara
