About me
Meenhard Fokken
Birth: November 4th, 1963 in Leer/ East Friesland (Northwest Germany)
Grew up in the village of Strackholt (East Friesland)
Civilian service in a retirement home in Oldenburg
Studies (sound engineer) in Berlin Employment: as a sound engineer for 4 years in the theater in Hildesheim and one year in Magdeburg, then
Occasional work: playing the piano in restaurants and at parties, delivering newspapers, author, street music, rent income, close to Hannover. Since 2005 temporarily at Nerja (South Spain), since 2010 permanently.
Since 2020 I play the piano in the church services of the German Protestant community in El Morche
I was married to a Korean woman for 11 years; I have a daughter, born in 1991, she is studying in Aachen
My gardens: In Germany I had allotment gardens, in southern Spain near Nerja I have been renting an agricultural plot with avocado trees, bananas, chickens, etc. since 2016.
Hobbies: simple lifestyle, self-sufficiency, hiking, health, reuse, environmental protection, politics, music and a bit of chess. I occasionally write comments at zeit-online.de.
I run two other blogs: