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Hannes Breuer

Hannes was born on 28 March 1970 in North Charleroy, Pennsylvania, USA.
He obtained his first schooling on board of his parent's sailing yacht which was his home for five years. He crossed the Atlantic as a four year old: from Dakar, Senegal, to Martinique in the Caribbean. Hannes attended schools in Tenerife, Bequi (Caribbean), Fischbach and Alzenau (Germany), Vienna and Neunkirchen (Austria).
His family immigrated to South Africa in 1981. Hannes matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium in 1986 and travelled for 8 months through Europe and Canada.
He studied Chemistry and Physics at Stellenbosch University (B.Sc. in Applied Physics, 1990) and finished his studies at the Technical University in Berlin with a Masters degree (Dipl. Ing. in Applied Physics, 1995).
Hannes was manager of his own software company in Berlin, before he accepted a position as Technical Lead (Project Leiter) at Siemens Medical Solutions in Heidelberg.

Languages: Afrikaans, English, German, some Spanish.
Hobbies: Cats, Karate, unicycling
Favourite books:Science and Science Fiction
Vernor Vinge, The peace war, Rainbows End, The Witling, A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep

Joan D. Vinge, The snow queen

Neil Gaiman,Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods

Peter S Beagle, The last unicorn
E.R. Eddison, The worm Ouroboros

Peter F. Hamilton, Night's Dawn trilogyThe reality dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's hammer
Barry Hughart, The bridge of birds
Jonathan Stroud, The amulet of Samarkand trilogy (Children's book)