How it all begins

Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger was born into a family of doctors in Stuttgart (southern Germany) on July 21, 1961, the fifth of six sons. The author, family man, craftsman, autodidact, inventor and entrepreneur attended one kindergarten, 10 schools, countless countries and 2 East German prisons. Released to Baden-Württemberg after 341 days of miserable food (on Friday, November 13, 1987), Christoph taught himself computer-aided drawing. He first freelanced for the IBM chip factory and then for the sports car fanatic architect Bernd Frank. After he managed to finance his parents' property, Christoph founded his own residential construction company in 1995, which was hit hard by the global financial crisis 13 years later (2008), whereupon he lost everything except the old villa that belonged to him and his second great love Dorothee. After his divorce, Christoph found his first great love Suzanne on the internet and flew to New Zealand to meet her in August 2015. And yes, it is true love! Six months later, Christoph has a little more time again and begins to write down his story ...

Meanwhile nine years in New Zealand, the last six of which Christoph has spent sleeping, working and cooking in his motorhome, he is also closing his third book at the beginning of 2025 to fly to the opposite side of our globe with his faithful dog Rosie. No longer so far away from his two sons, he wants to write the next chapters of his new stories because when he was released from the East German labour camp, he was abandoned by all evil spirits and since then has only been afraid of overflowing letterboxes.