Brief personal biography
I was born at 22:22 hours on the fifth day of December in 1974 in Lahr, Schwarzwald, Germany. Beyond the walls of the hospital, the thermometer marked -20°C.
10 months later, my parents flew me to Mexico, my mother’s country, without asking if I wanted to leave. They wanted to settle in that dramatic and surreal country. That marked my destiny, personality, and path: I was born to be a free soul, a traveler, a wanderer.
The bicultural background I grew up in offered me unique possibilities. I learned to think in three languages (Spanish, English, and German) from an early age. More importantly, the feeling of not fitting in became the core of my search for the meaning of life. I knew who I was, but not what I was nor why I was in this world, in a country that I could never really feel my own. Not even 51 years later.
My deep interest in God, spirituality, and religion surged in me from a very early age because I felt the Divinity could give me answers to my questions. My understanding of life is grounded in the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. Still, I have visited temples and studied the literature of many other spiritual philosophies and religions: Krishnaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. I like all religions, but the divine figure that has impacted me the most is Jeshua Ben Joseph. After leaving his interpreters behind, I believe in his message and his mission.
The first identity I consolidated came from Rock and Metal music. Every time I felt alone and mistreated by whomever, the way every teenager feels, I found refuge in the hard riffs of the long-haired genre. From the cheesiest Glam ballad to the brutality of Death Metal, from the 60s to today’s, distorted guitars, blasting drums, and groovy basses have been the most loyal friends I have ever had. I actively participated as a singer in Steel Cranium (1992), L.D.B. (1993), Bloodsoaked (1994), Arkhé (1995), El Diablo (2002), and Dirty Woman (2008-2016).
At 21, I graduated from UNAM’s Faculty of Law, and I moved to Germany at 23. I felt I belonged there instantly. Siegen, a small city near the border with the Netherlands, gave me shelter. I met people there who have never left my life. A year later, I moved to Berlin, where I studied for a Master’s in Law at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, with an emphasis on applied philosophy of Law (Habermas). Then I moved back to Mexico at the height of the Zapatista movement amid political change, thinking I could help improve the country that adopted me.
I became a full-time teacher at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 2001 and left in 2005. In between (2003-2004), I studied a new master’s, this time in Social Philosophy, at Loyola University Chicago, and left the job to pursue a Ph.D. in Ethics (focused on Kant and Nietzsche) again at UNAM. I earned the degree in 2010 and started teaching again at Claustro de Sor Juana (2009-2012), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (2010), and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2012-2025), and have been a member of the National Researchers System (SNI) since 2014.
Las penas no tienen color, my first book, saw the light in 2021. Kant para el siglo XXI, my second book, was published a few months later. Both books are about what I love the most. The first one is about American people’s music. Remember this: Never mind what you’ve heard, the truth is that blues have no colors (nor age, nor gender, nor anything. We all have suffered, we all have endured pain.
The second one is about the philosophical system of my favorite thinker: Kant. Its title: Kant para el Siglo XXI.
An English translation of the first book, Blues Have No Colors (2026), has just been published and is available on Amazon.com worldwide.
My story, however, has not been written to the end… I am still wandering…