Martin Frank

1950 born in Bern, Switzerland

various private and public schools in Bern, Zurich and Samedan

1965 first love

1968 federal diploma in horsemanship

1969 start work as a systems programmer

1970 spend 6 months in Lampedusa, Italy

? run away to India, stay in a Buddhist monastery in Bodh Gaya, Bihar

1972 meet my lifelong friend and partner

1975 study 6 months in Center for Advanced Studies in Linguistics, Annamalai Universit, India

1976 stays in Vienna and London, write "ter fögi ische souhung"

? bought a second hand Morris America for my friend

1979 publish "ter fögi ische souhung", instant bestseller

first son born

1980 bought a Cadillac Eldorado coupe 1973

1980 buy half a house together with my friends

1981 partner in architecture office

"Spannteppichjunge" published

? "Lobo" published

? "La Mort de Chevrolet" published

? received a Lada car with four digit number plates from my father

? first son moves in with my friends and me

? bought a second hand RR Corniche

? married the mother of my second son

? second son born moves in with my friends and me

? "Blinde Brüder" published

? "Sechs Liebesgeschichten" published

? "Ocean of Love" published

? "rose x rikki" published

1994 build Palais Kraft

? move to Palais Kraft

2004 first grandson born

2010 death of Samurai, our dog and friend

2011 my beautiful, wonderful, faithful lover died

2012 "Aruns Geschichte" published