About Patrick Kurtz

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

As 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 publishing Aidan Johnstone’s memoirs under the title Livingstones Mahnung, he released in 2012 the scholarly volume Von Ovid, Grass und Tintagel Castle – Wissenschaftliche und Essayistische Ausflüge in die Europäische Literatur.

 

Furthermore, Patrick Kurtz has conducted studies with varying intensity on subjects such as prehistory; religion and mythology; the origin, development, and nature of the universe, life (with a focus on biochemistry, especially the DNA molecule), and consciousness; philosophy; police violence; climate change; and democracy, demagogy, and disinformation in the 21st century. His interests always span both established scientific disciplines and alternative approaches, consistently looking beyond the Western perspective. His additional interests and passions include music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi Yoga, scuba diving (PADI-certified), and various forms of physical activity.

Out of personal interest and a natural inclination for combination, deduction, and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed a private investigator training course in 2012/13 and has since worked professionally as an IHK-certified detective. His primary area of study and investigation focuses on criminology with the application of human ethology insights.

His further qualifications in investigation and security include the IHK professional competence exam pursuant to § 34a GewO, the commercial weapons competence examination pursuant to § 7 WaffG, certification in life-saving first aid measures and defibrillator usage, VDS intervention training, and even lift operator certification according to TRBS 3121.

Language skills: German, English, Spanish (all conversationally fluent), as well as Italian, French, Catalan, and Greek (with varying levels of basic vocabulary and conversational proficiency). Additionally, Patrick Kurtz holds a Latin qualification and is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet.

Patrick Kurtz is regularly consulted as an expert by television, radio, print media, and other institutions, including the University of Potsdam as an adviser within a research project, as well as frequently by Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta professional publications, the Berliner Tagesspiegel, Die Wirtschaft Köln, Weser-Kurier, Merkurist Frankfurt, 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 ZEIT), pflichtlektüre (WAZ Media Group), the children and youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson (all Switzerland), the Berlin Security Academy, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Dresdner Morgenpost, Sächsische Zeitung, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, and also as "maxperte™" for the online streaming service maxdome.

Since 2016, he has been an active and committed supporter of the Neven Subotic Foundation.

 

For those interested in booking Patrick Kurtz for lectures or media productions, please use the following link:

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