About Patrick Kurtz

Patrick Kurtz is a private investigator, criminalist, writer, editor, publisher and researcher. He currently lives with his wife Dr Maya Grünschloß and their two children Ian and Enlil alternately in Germany, in Barcelona (Spain) and on the Isle of Skye (Scotland).

 

A native “Römer” and grandson of the central German local historian Hilmar Römer, Patrick Kurtz studied Provincial Roman Archaeology, Psychology, Comparative Literature and German Studies at the universities of Oxford, Leipzig, Marburg and Hagen. In addition to editing Aidan Johnstone’s memoirs under the title Livingstones Mahnung, he published the academic volume Von Ovid, Grass und Tintagel Castle – Wissenschaftliche und Essayistische Ausflüge in die Europäische Literatur in 2012.

 

Furthermore, Patrick Kurtz has pursued studies of varying intensity on topics such as prehistory; religion and mythology; the origin, development and nature of the universe, of life (with a focus on biochemistry, specifically the DNA molecule) and of consciousness; philosophy; police violence; climate change; as well as democracy, demagogy and disinformation in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he consistently shows interest both in mainstream academic scholarship and in alternative academic approaches and looks beyond the Western horizon. Among his other interests and passions are music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi yoga, scuba diving (PADI-certified) and various forms of sporting activity.

 

Out of interest and a natural aptitude for combination, deduction and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed training as a private detective in 2012 and 2013 and has been conducting commercial investigations as an IHK-certified specialist detective since qualifying. His particular academic and investigative focus in this context is criminalistics applying insights from human ethology.

 

His additional qualifications in the field of investigation and security include the IHK certificate of competence pursuant to section 34a of the GewO, the commercial firearms proficiency examination pursuant to section 7 of the WaffG, certification of knowledge of immediate life-saving measures and defibrillator instruction, intervention officer according to VdS as well as lift attendant pursuant to TRBS 3121.

 

Language skills: German, English and Spanish (each business fluent) as well as, with varying degrees of basic vocabulary and conversational proficiency, Italian, French, Catalan and Greek. In addition, Patrick Kurtz holds the Latinum and is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet.

 

Patrick Kurtz is regularly consulted as an expert by television, radio and print media as well as other institutions, including the University of Potsdam as an adviser within the framework of a research project, and furthermore – often on multiple occasions – by Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta Fachbuch, the Berliner Tagesspiegel, “Die Wirtschaft Köln”, the Weser-Kurier, Merkurist Frankfurt, the Offenbach-Post, Antenne Münster, Sat.1 NRW, BILD, MDR television, MDR radio (including Figaro), NDR television, Spiegel, the IHK magazine, VICE Magazine, ze.tt (youth magazine of DIE ZEIT), pflichtlektüre (WAZ media group), the children’s and youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson (all Switzerland), the Sicherheitsakademie Berlin, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, the Dresdner Morgenpost, the Sächsische Zeitung and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung as well as as a “maxperte™” of the online streaming service “maxdome”.

 

Since 2016, he has been a continuous active and committed supporter of the well:fair foundation, formerly the Neven Subotic Foundation, whose mission is to provide as many people as possible in the so-called Global South with access to clean water.

 

If you are interested in booking Patrick Kurtz for lectures or media productions, please use the following link:

https://www.patrick-kurtz.com/kontakt-vortrags-und-medienproduktionsbuchung/.