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2007: The white parakeet does not speak, but Coco, the green one, does. He is bilingual. He knows Italian phrases such as "Sono un cocorito" (I am a parakeet) and "Come stai?" (How are you?), sounding exactly like the voice of his teacher Juergen on a lo-fi tape recorder. He also knows German: "Ich bin ein kleiner Wellensittich" (I am a little parakeet), "Bist Du ein Papagei?" (Are you a parrot?), "Du Schmutzfink!" (You dirty slob!), and combinations thereof. Using his catch phrase "Kikeriki!" (Cock-a-doodle-doo!), he fluently converses with Bavarian chicken. |
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Lago Lugano, 2007 |
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2005: Julia & Juergen constructing a snow arc |
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November 2002 |
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2000: With daughter Julia in Lago Lugano |
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Hiking in Ticino |
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Late 1990s: somewhere above Lugano |
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1997: marriage with Uli Krommer; first time daddy |
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1996: new home in Switzerland |
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1991-1993: postdoc in Colorado (US); got a tan in NYC at the WTC |
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1980s: made a lot of questionable inventions, such as "Scherflieg" (scissors-fly, failed patent EZK/D 567.884.030). Scherflieg's drawback: it requires a significant physical effort, and the user soon starts to spin in the direction opposite to the rotor's. Most people who tried Scherflieg were not able to stay airborne for more than 30 seconds, or to reach altitudes above 10 meters. Future models will have a second rotor with opposite spin. |
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1970s: still had a lot of hair |
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Bavarian mountains |
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With little brother Christof in Munich's English Garden (1968 or so). |
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Right before a great disappointment (Munich, 1965) |
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1963: Dad (Johann Schmidhuber, left) regularly beat Jürgen in the game of chess, often within less than 90 moves. |
