Foreign Languages

• Foreign languages, especially of Germanic (1), Romance (2) or Celtic (3) origin; comparison with my own native German. The focus of my foreign language capacities lies on English and French. Due to lacking exercise, I have rather basic expression capacities in the other languages mentioned here, which, however, can be refreshed rather quickly in some cases.
  • (1) English
  • (2) French, Italian, Latin, Portugese, Romanian, Spanish
  • (3) Breton, Welsh
  • Turkish
• Foreign language teaching
• Translation

Computing

• Knowledge about...
  • Linux
  • graphical user interfaces
    • FVWM 2
    • KDE
  • Editors
    • vi, pico, [emacs, xemacs]
  • office applications
    • StarOffice, OpenOffice
    • Basic but in no way profound knowledge about LaTeX / Lyx
  • Configuration with Yast as well as several other tools and applications within S.u.S.E. Linux
  • Many other tools, applications and console commands
  • Microsoft Windows 9x / NT / XP
    • Ability to structure, write and compile complex help files for Windows applications
    • MS Office
      • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
      • Other standard applications like Outlook and Internet Explorer
    • Many other tools ans applications
  • HTML (as seen here)
    • CSS
    • Accessibility in web design (more or less)

Cycling and Bicycle Touring

• Long distance cycling
• bicycles (including tandems) and bicycle technology suitable for this purpose
• sophisticated knowledge of bicycle mechanics

Arts and Culture

• Photography (landscape, architecture, theatre)
• Contemporary radio play (and radio feature)
• World music, jazz and many other kinds of music which in most cases are a bit remote from the general mainstream
• Scottish Ceilidh dancing in Tübingen. This dance group has been inaugurated in January 2000 by Heiko Rehmann (then the caller of the group), myself and some others. Thanks to them all for their support! Due to widespread interest, the group has been constantly increasing. Other callers have made it possible to meet twice a week (Monday and Wednesday). Meanwhile, the second group, meeting on Wednesdays, has developed further. They have almost completely left the concept of Scottish Ceilidh Dancing and broaden the dancers' horizons by teaching dances from other parts of Europe.
• Breton dancing (also possible in Tübingen)
• Almost anything concerning the Celtic Fringes

Peter Liehr