Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger

Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger was born into a family of doctors in Stuttgart (southern Germany) on July 21, 1961, the fifth of six sons. The family man, autodidact, inventor, entrepreneur, craftsman and author attended 1 kindergarten, 10 schools and 2 East German prisons. After 341 days of miserable food, Christoph taught himself computer-aided technical drawing (CAD) in 1988. He first worked for two years as a freelancer for the IBM chip factory in Böblingen and then for eight years for the charismatic architect Bernd Frank in Leonberg-Warmbronn. After he managed to finance his parents' property, Christoph founded his own residential construction company in 1996. His business flourished until the global financial crisis of 2008, whereupon Christoph lost everything except the old villa that belonged to him and his second great love Dorothee. After the divorce, Christoph found his first great love Suzanne on the internet and flew to New Zealand to meet her in August 2015. And yes, it's true love! Six months later, he begins to write down his story ...