About Patrick Kurtz

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

 

A native “Römer” and grandson of the central German local historian Hilmar Römer, Patrick Kurtz studied Provincial Roman Archaeology, Psychology, Comparative Literature 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 the academic volume On Ovid, Grass and Tintagel Castle – Scholarly and Essayistic Excursions into European Literature in 2012.

 

Furthermore, Patrick Kurtz has conducted studies of varying intensity on subjects such as prehistory; religion and mythology; the origin, development and nature of the universe, of life (with a focus on biochemistry, particularly the DNA molecule) and of consciousness; philosophy; police violence; climate change; and democracy, demagogy and disinformation in the 21st century. In doing so, he consistently takes an interest both in academic scholarship and in alternative scientific approaches, looking beyond the Western horizon. His further interests and passions include music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi yoga, scuba diving (PADI-certified) and various forms of physical activity.

 

Out of interest and natural aptitude for combination, deduction and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed training as a private detective in 2012/13 and has since worked commercially as an IHK-certified specialist detective. His academic and investigative focus in this field is criminology with the application of human-ethological insights.

 

His further qualifications in the field of investigation and security include the IHK expert examination pursuant to § 34a of the German Trade Regulation Act, the commercial firearms proficiency examination pursuant to § 7 of the German Weapons Act, certification in life-saving emergency measures and defibrillator training, intervention force qualification according to VdS, and even lift attendant certification under TRBS 3121.

 

Language skills: German, English and Spanish (all at conversational level), as well as Italian, French, Catalan and Greek with varying degrees of basic vocabulary and conversational competence. Patrick Kurtz also holds the Latinum and is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet.

 

Patrick Kurtz is regularly consulted as an expert by television, radio and print media as well as other institutions, including the University of Potsdam (as an adviser for a research project) and – in many cases repeatedly – Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta academic publishing, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 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, Der Spiegel, the IHK magazine, VICE Magazine, ze.tt(youth magazine of Die ZEIT), pflichtlektüre (WAZ media group), youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson (both Switzerland), the Berlin Security Academy, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, the Dresdner Morgenpost, the Sächsische Zeitung and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, as well as acting as a “maxperte™” for the online streaming service maxdome.

 

Since 2016, he has been a committed and continuous 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://patrick-kurtz.com/kontakt-vortrags-und-medienproduktionsbuchung/.