About Patrick Kurtz

Patrick Kurtz is a private investigator, criminalist, author, editor, publisher and researcher. He lives with his wife, Dr Maya Grünschloß, and their two children, Ian and Enlil, alternately 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 publishing Aidan Johnstone’s memoirs under the title Livingstone’s Mahnung, he released the academic volume Von Ovid, Grass und Tintagel Castle – Wissenschaftliche und Essayistische Ausflüge in die Europäische Literatur in 2012.

 

Patrick Kurtz has also pursued studies of varying depth in 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, demagogy and disinformation in the 21st century. In doing so, he maintains an interest both in academic scholarship and in alternative scientific approaches, and he looks beyond the Western cultural sphere. His further interests and passions include music (he is a multi-instrumentalist), Rishi yoga, scuba diving (PADI-certified) and various forms of physical activity.

 

Driven by an interest in and innate talent for combination, deduction and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed training as a private investigator in 2012/13 and has since been working commercially as an IHK-certified specialist investigator. His corresponding academic and investigative focus lies in criminalistics with the application of human ethological findings.

 

His additional qualifications in the fields of investigation and security include the IHK proficiency examination pursuant to § 34a GewO, the commercial weapons proficiency examination pursuant to § 7 WaffG, certification in life-saving immediate measures and defibrillator instruction, VdS intervention force and even lift operator qualification pursuant to TRBS 3121.

 

Languages: German, English and Spanish (each fluent), as well as basic to intermediate conversational ability in 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. Among others, he has contributed to projects for the University of Potsdam, and has appeared – often repeatedly – on Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta Fachbuch, the Tagesspiegel, 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, the VICE magazine, ze.tt (youth magazine of DIE ZEIT), pflichtlektüre (WAZ media group), tut (children’s and youth magazine), Blick, Watson (both Switzerland), the Sicherheitsakademie Berlin, Star FM Berlin, Radio NPR Berlin, Radio Wuppertal, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, the Dresdner Morgenpost, the Sächsische Zeitung, the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, and has served as a “maxperte™” for the online streaming service maxdome.

 

Since 2016, he has been a 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/.