About the Author
Christopher Markert wrote numerous books on health, popular psychology and Far-Eastern wisdom. His first book, “Test Your Emotions”, sold over 700,000 copies in nine countries.
About His Childhood and Growing Up in Nazi Germany
He was born in Germany in 1927. His father, a sculptor and art school professor, was not allowed to teach or exhibit his work during the Hitler years. In World War II the family home in Berlin was destroyed by a bomb, and the second home at the Baltic Sea was confiscated by the Russians.
At the end of the war (1944) Chris was drafted into the air force at age 16, to operate anti-aircraft guns. This was the worst year of his life; he deserted and went into hiding. As the Allied Forces advanced, he ended up in an American prison camp with 100,000 POWs. He found this better than being in the German army, except that there was no shelter and very little food. He developed hunger aedema (swollen legs) and moved about on hand and knees for a few weeks.
In July 1945 he was released and joined his parents who had escaped from Russian-occupied East Germany. His father now became a professor again, and Chris studies sociology and economics at Munich University. For a year he worked in an institute for public opinion research.
About His New Life in the U.S.A.
In 1954 he immigrated to the USA where he started his career as a dishwasher in New York. Gradually his English improved, and he found work at an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam), later at Raymond Loewy Assoc. In San Francisco he worked for a division of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
About His Dreams of Becoming an Author
He had always dreamt of being a writer, and in 1967 he got his first book published. Encouraged by this success he moved to the Canary Islands (Spain) and kept writing. For the last 15 years he has enjoyed the easy life on a tropical island in Thailand, “The Land of Smiles”. At present he is working on a book entitled “Life is a Joy… when you find your inner self”.