Manfred Tiller

Born 1959 in Vienna, Austria. After passing the respective and necessary colleges, study of contemporary history and ethnology which brought me with a stip to the Andean highlands of Bolivia. The matter of my thesis "Ethnological studies on applied alcoholic beverages" (no pun!:)) proved to be desastrous for my academic carreer - as I stayed for some years too long there to graduate. Since then surviving on dire straits as a freelancer in journalism, part-time translator. Back to Vienna at the time of the fall of the Berlin wall and the suicide of communism, I decided to move to Berlin, to teach germans austrian...or, at least, to experience for a moment a bit of fresh air in history (not at least, out of professional interest as historician). Since then, I am moving between Vienna and Berlin (and in winter heading to warmer places like Spain).

Only the internet era saved me from falling prey completely to stupidity - and the fine digicams and composing shareware developed in the last five years. To photography I am a complete newcomer - starting only a year ago to shoot; mainly interested in rather weird and toycam-like digi-cams: Better imperfect, but mine.

I am also composing endless, lulling and ear yelling ambient tracks - with less and less success (as can be seen at : http://www.mp3.com/Manfred_Tiller). Maybe there is something amongst, other monkeys also would like...