About Patrick Kurtz

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

 

As a native “Römer” and grandson of the central German local historian Hilmar Römer, Patrick Kurtz studied Provincial Roman Archaeology, Psychology, Comparative Studies 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 in 2012 the specialist literary volume Von Ovid, Grass und Tintagel Castle – Wissenschaftliche und Essayistische Ausflüge in die Europäische Literatur.

 

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; and democracy, demagoguery and disinformation in the 21st century. In doing so, he shows interest both in the established sciences and in alternative-scientific approaches and looks beyond the Western horizon. His other interests and passions include, among others, music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi Yoga, scuba diving (PADI-certified) and various forms of sporting activity.

 

Out of interest and a natural inclination for combination, deduction and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed training to become a private detective in 2012/13 and has worked commercially since certification as an IHK-qualified specialist detective. His related study and investigative focus is criminalistics using findings from human ethology.

 

His other qualifications in the field of investigation and security include the IHK proficiency examination pursuant to § 34a GewO, the commercial weapons proficiency test pursuant to § 7 WaffG, certification in life-saving first aid measures and defibrillator instruction, intervention personnel qualification according to VDS and even elevator attendant qualification pursuant to TRBS 3121.

 

Languages: German, English, Spanish (each at conversational level) and, to varying degrees of basic vocabulary and conversational ability, Italian, French, Catalan and Greek. In addition, Patrick Kurtz holds the Latinum and is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet.

 

Patrick Kurtz is regularly consulted by television, radio and print media as well as other institutions as an expert, among others by the University of Potsdam as an adviser within the framework of a research project, and frequently – repeatedly – 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 and youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson (all Switzerland), the Security Academy Berlin, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, the Dresdner Morgenpost, the Sächsische Zeitung and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, or as a “maxperte™” for the online streaming service maxdome.

 

Since 2016 he has been a consistently active and wholehearted supporter of the Neven Subotic Foundation.

 

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/.