{"id":775,"date":"2025-01-09T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intermezzo.filk.de\/?page_id=775"},"modified":"2025-01-18T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:49:35","slug":"honoured-listener","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/intermezzo.filk.de\/en\/honoured-listener\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoured Listener: Le-Matya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-779\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/intermezzo.filk.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Le-matya-froehlich-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Le-matya schaut fr\u00f6hlich in die Kamera\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Carsten Kurte<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Official name: Carsten Kurte<\/p>\n<p>True name: Le-matya<\/p>\n<p>Mostly a straight, cis male, but that doesn\u2019t make him a bad person. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Atheist, but not materialist.<\/p>\n<p>Born in D\u00fcsseldorf on December 14, 1971<\/p>\n<p>Marital status: free<\/p>\n<p>Age: over 53 revolutions of our overheated mudball around Sol<\/p>\n<p>Size: somewhat too much for comfort<\/p>\n<p>Lives in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany not too far from where the river Ruhr flows into the river Rhine.<\/p>\n<p>Majored in Comparative literature and minored in English and Philosophy at the University of Duisburg and Essen in Germany and works mostly as a teacher for German as a foreign language. Sometimes also teaches English as a foreign language and translates English into German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Filk<\/strong> fan since around 1992<\/p>\n<p><strong>DC Comics<\/strong> and other media fan since 1979<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Wars<\/strong> fan since late 1983<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek<\/strong> fan since 1985<\/p>\n<p>Not sure about the rest but also a fan of including but not limited to and in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>Franchises:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Babylon 5, Marvel, Elfquest, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Middle Earth and Arda, Top Cow Universe, David Mack\u2019s Kabuki, Manga by Shirow Masamune (Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, Dominion u. a.), Patlabor, Seikai, Battle Angel Alita, Stargate, Dark Matter, Battlestar Galactica (old and new), Knight Rider, Sherlock Holmes, Hunger Games, Alien, Predator, Terminator, Robocop, Planet of the Apes, Indiana Jones<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(Sorry, no Dr. Who or Perry Rhodan.)<\/p>\n<p>Favorite authors:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">J.R.R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, N. K. Jemisin, J. K. Rowling, Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip Pullman, Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Directors:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">James Cameron, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Filk, film scores, Die Toten Hosen (German Punk band), Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift<\/p>\n<p>Other hobbies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Languages (real and constructed), Sciences (hard and soft) Swimming, riding bicycles (without motors)<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-778\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-778\" src=\"https:\/\/intermezzo.filk.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Le-matya-ernst-scaled-e1736437352440.jpg\" alt=\"Le-matya schaut ernst in die Kamera\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Carsten Kurte<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official name: Carsten Kurte True name: Le-matya Mostly a straight, cis male, but that doesn\u2019t make him a bad person. \ud83d\ude09 Atheist, but not materialist. 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