Marcus Wolfgang Ohlhaut - My interests

There are some things on earth that people find more interesting than others. Here is a tiny bit of what I personally like and on what I spend a considerable amount of my spare time:

First thing to mention would be singing in a choir. After being a member of the choir of my fomer high school for more than eight years, a peek into the world of the opera (A Village Romeo and Juliet by F. Delius) and a rather demotivating year with the Musici München, I now sing with Sing and Pray, the gospel choir of the Erlöserkirche in Fürstenfeldbruck near München. I also was a member of the Stephanus Voices and the Several Voices. More gospel-related links can be found here.

Besides that, I now and then set off for an entertaining trip into nature together with friends that own a GPS device. Geo caching frequently gets one into places that one has never been to before, even in areas that one believes to know as good as one's own pockets. And without solving tricky riddles, no progress can be made sometimes ...

The Groundspeak Geocaching Logo is a trademark of Groundspeak, Inc. Used with permission.

The Puck-Maus Some of my regular activities involve mailboxes, emails and newsgroups. I first came across these media about 15 years ago, at a time when noone really knew the term "Internet" and only a few private BBSs existed in Germany. I was looking for a BBS in the Würzburg area (using a 2400 bps modem at the time) and finally (after some rather disappointing experiments with Fido BBSs) ended up in a convincing, easy-to-use German BBS, the Maus Würzburg. Sadly, with the dawn of the internet, MausNet shrunk and is now virtually non-existent. More infos about MausNet can be found on its official home page.

I am a quite convinced user of Donald E. Knuth's typesetting system TeX. Many years of experience with a wide range of computer systems and the standard software associated with them showed me that proprietary data formats such as Signum, Calamus, Works or Word not only waste a lot of space but are also not portable at all. For this reason a good ASCII editor is as well part of my eyery day tool box as some proficiency in HTML and TeX/LaTeX markup. More infos about TeX can be found at DANTE, the German TeX users group. I have collected a list of typography-related links and books worth reading here.

Logo Filmwochenende Very important to me is my commitment to the Weekend of International Film in Würzburg. We show about 40 films in 70 sessions at the last weekend of January every year to bring some cineastic culture to Würzburg. I am responsible for organisation and office work during the year, the whole complex of box office and tickets during the festival and any kind of technical support required.

Logo Förderverein Even 15 years after leaving high school, I am still tied to the Deutschhaus-Gymnasium in Würzburg. This results in a lose, but steady contact to pupils and teachers and in me being a member of the alumni association, the DHG Förderverein. I archive year books and the finalists' newspapers on behalf of the Förderverein which makes me fairly familiar with almost anyone who has been there.

	First thing to mention would be singing in a choir. After being a member of the choir of my fomer high school for more than eight years, a peek into the world of the opera (A Village Romeo and Juliet by F. Delius) and a rather demotivating year with the Musici München, I now sing with Sing and Pray, the gospel choir of the Erlöserkirche in Fürstenfeldbruck near München. I also was a member of the Stephanus Voices and the Several Voices. More gospel-related links can be found here.
	Besides that, I now and then set off for an entertaining trip into nature together with friends that own a GPS device. Geo caching frequently gets one into places that one has never been to before, even in areas that one believes to know as good as one's own pockets. And without solving tricky riddles, no progress can be made sometimes ... The Groundspeak Geocaching Logo is a trademark of Groundspeak, Inc. Used with permission.
	Some of my regular activities involve mailboxes, emails and newsgroups. I first came across these media about 15 years ago, at a time when noone really knew the term "Internet" and only a few private BBSs existed in Germany. I was looking for a BBS in the Würzburg area (using a 2400 bps modem at the time) and finally (after some rather disappointing experiments with Fido BBSs) ended up in a convincing, easy-to-use German BBS, the Maus Würzburg. Sadly, with the dawn of the internet, MausNet shrunk and is now virtually non-existent. More infos about MausNet can be found on its official home page.
	I am a quite convinced user of Donald E. Knuth's typesetting system TeX. Many years of experience with a wide range of computer systems and the standard software associated with them showed me that proprietary data formats such as Signum, Calamus, Works or Word not only waste a lot of space but are also not portable at all. For this reason a good ASCII editor is as well part of my eyery day tool box as some proficiency in HTML and TeX/LaTeX markup. More infos about TeX can be found at DANTE, the German TeX users group. I have collected a list of typography-related links and books worth reading here.
	Very important to me is my commitment to the Weekend of International Film in Würzburg. We show about 40 films in 70 sessions at the last weekend of January every year to bring some cineastic culture to Würzburg. I am responsible for organisation and office work during the year, the whole complex of box office and tickets during the festival and any kind of technical support required.
	Even 15 years after leaving high school, I am still tied to the Deutschhaus-Gymnasium in Würzburg. This results in a lose, but steady contact to pupils and teachers and in me being a member of the alumni association, the DHG Förderverein. I archive year books and the finalists' newspapers on behalf of the Förderverein which makes me fairly familiar with almost anyone who has been there.