About Patrick Kurtz, Owner of Kurtz Detective Agency Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein

Patrick Kurtz is a private investigator, criminologist, writer, editor, publisher and researcher. He 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).

 

Born a “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 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, with varying intensity, in subjects such as prehistory; religion and mythology; the origin, development and nature of the universe, of life (with a focus on biochemistry, especially the DNA molecule) and of consciousness; philosophy; police violence; climate change; and democracy, demagoguery and disinformation in the 21st century. He maintains an interest both in established academic research and in alternative scholarly approaches, always seeking perspectives beyond the Western sphere. His additional interests and passions include music, as a multi-instrumentalist, Rishi Yoga, scuba diving as a PADI-certified diver, and various forms of athletic activity.

 

Driven by a natural inclination towards combination, deduction and analysis, Patrick Kurtz completed professional training as a private investigator in 2012 and 2013 and has since practised commercially as a certified detective. His academic and investigative focus lies in criminalistics with the application of human ethological insights.

 

His further qualifications in the field of investigation and security include the Chamber of Industry and Commerce examination pursuant to Section 34a of the German Trade Regulation Act, the commercial firearms proficiency examination pursuant to Section 7 of the German Weapons Act, certification in life-saving emergency measures including defibrillator training, certification as an intervention specialist according to VdS, and qualification as a lift attendant pursuant to TRBS 3121.

 

Languages: German, English and Spanish, fluent in conversation; additionally Italian, French, Catalan and Greek with varying levels of basic vocabulary and conversational proficiency. 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 advisor within the framework of a research project, and repeatedly by Sat.1, RTL, ZDF, BBC Worldwide, WDR Radio, Galileo (ProSieben), Klett-Cotta Fachbuch, the Berliner 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 Chamber of Industry and Commerce magazine, VICE Magazine, ze.tt, pflichtlektüre of the WAZ Media Group, the children’s and youth magazine tut, Blick, Watson in 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 as a “maxperte™” of the online streaming service maxdome.

 

Since 2016, he has been a continuous 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/.