Personal page of Franka Miriam Brückler. Last update: June 28th, 2006.

I was born in Essen. My birthday is the same as of:

and Plato is also said to have been born that day - May 21.

I finished school in Zagreb, Croatia and graduated mathematics at the University of Zagreb in 1994. I studyed Law and Studia Croatica, but didn't manage to finish these two faculties due to lack of time. Last year I renewed my law studies. During 1994. I worked as a journalist at a local television in Zagreb (OTV), as coworker on the talk-show "In Medias Res", a religious-social show, until it was removed from the programe. Since April 1st, 1995. I worked as teaching assistant at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Zagreb; here I have also made my PhD (July 2002). In 2005. I became assistant professor, first for one semester at the Dept. of Mathematics in Osijek, and since April 2006. in Zagreb. I also teach at the Dept. of Math. in Osijek and the Zagreb school of economy and management. I'm member of the Croatian Mathematical Society, the Croatian Chemical Society and the Croatian Society of Catholic Journalists. As for languages, I know Croatian (of course), German and English.

My hobbies are beer, watching football, drawing, travelling and photography, perfumes, collecting ducks (not the alive ones :-), classic western movies ...

My motto:

"Have patience. Go where you must, and hope." (Gandalf in J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings")

My favorite lyrics:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS

Grab your ticket and your suitcase
Thunder's rolling down the tracks
You don't know where you're goin'
But you know you won't be back
Darlin' if you're weary
Lay your head upon my chest
We'll take what we can carry
And we'll leave the rest

Big Wheels rolling through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

I will provide for you
And I'll stand by your side
You'll need a good companion for
This part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
And all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train
Carries saints and sinners
This train
Carries losers and winners
This Train
Carries whores and gamblers
This Train
Carries lost souls
This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'

This Train
Carries broken-hearted
This Train
Thieves and sweet souls departed
This Train
Carries fools and kings
This Train
All aboard

This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'

FMB-Favorites

5 Favorite Beers	Brinkhoff's No.1	Gatz	Hannen Alt	Dortmunder Kronen	Frueh Koelsch
5 Favorite Cuisines	Mexican	German	Spanish	Italian	Indonesian
5 Favorite Dishes	Leberkaese mit Kartoffelsalat	Krustenbraten mit Bratkartoffeln	Schweizer Roesti	Spaetzle with bacon, onions and cheese	Steak with beans and corn (tex-mex style)
5 Favorite Football Countries	Germany	Croatia	Spain	England	Denmark
5 Favorite Football Teams	Bayern Muenchen	FC Barcelona	Borussia Dortmund	FC Liverpool	Real Madrid
10 Favorite Football Players	Oliver Kahn	Torsten Frings	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Gennaro Gattuso	Wayne Rooney
	Peter Crouch	Carlos Puyol	Per Mertesacker	Xavi	Dado Prso
3 Favorite Football Players (retired)	Lothar Matthaeus	Ronald Koeman	Andreas Brehme	Hans-Peter Briegel	Fernando Hierro
5 Favorite Colors	aubergine	orange	black	blue-green	yellow
5 Favorite Quotes	"There are all kinds of rumors about me. And they're all true, every one of them You can make up some if you want." (R. Mitchum)	"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" " (G.B.Shaw)	"Everything you can imagine is real" (P.Picasso)	"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." (L. L'Amour)	"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." (R.W.Emerson)
5 Favorite Towns	Dortmund	Trondheim	Bonn	Barcelona	København
5 Favorite Actors	Robert Mitchum	Richard Widmark	Heinz Ruehmann	Yul Brynner	Cary Grant
5 Favorite Actresses	Jane Russell	Lauren Bacall	Katharine Hepburn	Maureen O'Hara	Kim Novak
5 Favorite Movies	Gunfight at the O.K.Corral	We're No Angels	The Searchers	Bringing Up Baby	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5 Favorite Directors	Howard Hawks	Michael Curtiz	Raoul Walsh	John Huston	Edward Dmytryk
5 Favorite Singers/Groups	Bruce Springsteen	Johnny Cash	Deep Purple	Led Zeppelin	Dean Martin
5 Favorite Songs	War (Bruce Springsteen)	Solitary Man (Johnny Cash)	Countin' on a miracle (Bruce Springsteen)	Song Dance(Pavlov's Dog)	Cavoglave (Thompson)
5 Favorite Writers	Ephraim Kishon (deutsch)	George Bernard Shaw	Charles Dickens	J. R. R. Tolkien	Zane Grey
5 Favorite Books	Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)	Betty Zane (Zane Grey)	Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)	Count of Monte Christo (Alexandre Dumas)
5 Favorite Painters	Joseph Mallord William Turner	Frederic Remington	M.C.Escher	Vincent van Gogh	Francisco Goya