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Hola gente !! So you wanna take a closer look at the freaky guy I am ...-ok!

My full name is Sascha Mariano Sass. "Sascha" because of a TV-series of the seventies called "Salto Mortale", where Horst Janson (...the one who played with the Swiss actress Lilo Pulver in the German version of Sesame Street!) had the role of "Sascha"; "Mariano" was the name of my Spanish grandpa from EL POYO DE ALISTE in ZAMORA - and also the name of HIS grandpa...etc. By the way, my mother Emilia is the Spaniard of the family!

I was born in Cologne-Holweide and my zodiac sign is ... - eeeehhh, well - forget about it! I think astrology is pretty ridiculous!! I grew up in Cologne-Mülheim (called "schääl Sick" which means "the wrong side" in KÖLSCH, our Cologne-dialect and the only language you can also drink!). First we lived at the main street "Bergisch Gladbacher Straße", i.e. lots of traffic noise: cars, trams, trains and planes - and I loved it!! Later, when we moved to a much quieter area (Buchheim, Wichheimer Straße) I wasn't able to sleep. The name of my elementary school and the catholic church, where I received my first communion, before losing my faith finally (atheistic greetings to the world!! ;o) was "Sankt Theresia".

Next "station" was the Hölderlin Gymnasium (my high school). My first class teacher was Herr Huppertz (by the way, he really wasa first-class-teacher!!), who teached me to pronounce German without the typical "Kölsch-Accent"...

With 19 years I finished high school and I had to defend "nation and fatherland"!! My first radical experience was the military medical examination, where everyone of us, completely naked, had to face a female doctor and a good-looking nurse ... - some of us tried to get a second "check-up", but they didn't allow us ...

I "coiled" myself through the 3-month basic instruction of the military service in Mayen (Fernmeldeausbildungskompanie 4/III) where I realized for the first time, that I'd written wrong my family name SASS my whole life - for in my identity card you can read "Saß"... -well, I really don't care!! The German letter "ß" looks strange and in foreign countries everyone thinks it's a "B"!!

I ripped off the remaining 9 months in Koblenz, in the Falckenstein-Barracks - staff department (called S1). Nevertheless I drove home every day, i.e.: getting up 9 months at 4 a.m., 5.19 a.m. I took the train from Cologne central station to Koblenz and at 7 a.m. we had to fall in on the barrack yard ...

To be continued...