Biography

MenschMarcus, that is me! My actual name is Marcus Kossatz, I was born on August 21st 1989 in a neat little town called Spremberg in the German Democratic Republic. I have two siblings and two parents, a true working-class family. Just a year later I became an irreproachable citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany – and not a working-class child anymore.

But despite of that I made it to primary school and did it a little shorter in five years instead of six. Afterwards I became a schoolboy of the Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium in Spremberg and spent my last years in school there until I passed my High School Diploma (Abitur) in 2008. I locked this school in my heart, and worked as the head editor of our school magazine and student’s representative and I still like to go there.

After my High School Diploma I spent the most impressive time of my short life working and travelling in Canada. In August 2008 I was working in Vancouver before I travelled throughout the ten provinces of the second largest country of the world by bus and train until January 2009. Three more months working as a diswasher in winterly Vancouver followed until I started my epic trip up North in April and May. The bus took me up to the vast nature and wilderness of the Northwest Territorries and from there I flew to Iqaulit, the capital of Nunavut, and I got to know the life of the Inuit and saw the Arctic. My 40.000 kilometers travel through the country of the maple leaf ended with a trip to the Yukon and a week on a ferry from Alaska to Vancouver on the beautiful West Coast of northern North America. After three weeks family vacation with an RV through the Canadian Rocky Mountains I returned back home with a backpack full of impressions and experiences of eleven months in Canada.

Since  October 2009 I study Media Informatics in Weimar, a very cultural city in the green heart of Germany, Thuringia. Now I am a resident of one of the most famous German cities and I follow the roots of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Wieland, Bach, Liszt, Wagner, van der Velde and Gropius.