Themis-Athenas Profil

The photo on my Amazon Profile page shows Gypsy, one of my three cats ... proof positive that cats are smart enough to even be computer-literate! :) There's also a photo of his adopted sister Holly at the computer: it doesn't fit Amazon's specifications, but you can see it - and meet Gypsy & Holly's youngest sister Tiger - here: http://www.themisathena.info/cats/catparade.html

As for me ... I suppose I'm best described as a life long dweller of that magic land where John Wayne and Tom Joad meet the gods and heroes of classic mythology and Shakespeare's dramas, where Bogey and Bacall sit down for a round of poker with Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey, and where Mr. Darcy and Captain Rhett Butler dance over the rainbow with Sheherazade and Emma Bovary:

Books, music and movies have been my great love ever since I was a kid — they are my number one source of inspiration, consolation and entertainment. Each story that I read, each play or movie I watch, and each piece of music I listen to offers me a new and different perspective on life. Many also open my eyes to worlds other than my own ... foreign countries and cultures, societies and people of centuries gone by, and creatures not constrained by the physical limitations of the world we know.

An avid traveler (as much as my cats allow me to leave them alone), I am also an amateur photographer and an enthusiastic hobby cook. After several years in the U.S. (the last three of those in Los Angeles, CA - but nothing to do with the entertainment industry), I have now returned to my native Germany. Here, for the time being I have settled in Bonn, the city where I grew up; though Berlin (where I was born and lived for close to 10 years before moving to the U.S.) remains close to my heart as well ... and I wouldn't rule out another move abroad eventually, either.

I started reviewing on Amazon.com in the summer of 2001 and mainly write about the pieces of music and the books and movies which have thoroughly impressed me, not necessarily only recently – things I also recommend to friends and family or give as presents. That is why most of the items I review get 4 or 5 star ratings. This is not to say that I don't appreciate well-written and informative 1- and 2-star reviews. However, since I don't even have nearly enough time to write about every item I would actually recommend, I am not particularly inclined to spend much of my own time reviewing mediocre things (although I do not rule out one day firing off scathing criticism on something which, on a scale from 1 to 5, I would rank a -10).