About Patrick Kurtz

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

 

As 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 in 2012 the scholarly volume Von Ovid, Grass und Tintagel Castle – Wissenschaftliche und Essayistische Ausflüge in die Europäische Literatur.

 

Furthermore, Patrick Kurtz has pursued studies with varying intensity on topics 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; as well as democracy, demagoguery, and disinformation in the 21st century. In doing so, he consistently shows interest both in academic scholarship and in alternative scientific approaches and looks beyond the Western horizon. His other interests and passions include music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi yoga, scuba diving (PADI certified), and various forms of sporting activity.

 

Out of interest and a 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 detective specialist. His academic and investigative focus in this field is criminalistics with the application of human ethological insights.

 

His additional qualifications in the fields of investigation and security include the IHK certificate of competence pursuant to section 34a of the German Trade Regulation Act, the commercial firearms proficiency certificate pursuant to section 7 of the German Weapons Act, proof of training in life-saving first aid measures and defibrillator instruction, qualification as an intervention officer according to VDS, and even certification as a lift attendant pursuant to TRBS 3121.

 

Language skills: German, English, and Spanish (each at conversational level), as well as, with varying degrees of basic vocabulary and conversational proficiency, Italian, French, Catalan, and Greek. 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 within the framework of a research project, and furthermore – often repeatedly – by Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta specialist publications, Der Berliner Tagesspiegel, Die Wirtschaft Köln, Weser-Kurier, Merkurist Frankfurt, 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), the children’s and youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson (all Switzerland), the Berlin Security Academy, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Dresdner Morgenpost, Sächsische Zeitung, and Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, as well as as a “maxperte™” for the online streaming service “maxdome”.

 

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