Mathieu Der Rote

My name is Mathieu (29) and I am from the tiny country of Luxembourg at the heart of Europe. I have been interested in the philosophy of life ever since I took my first Nietzsche out of my mom’s bookshelf at the age of 12. I went through a turbulent puberty and rebellious teenage years with Nietzsche being the remedy for my sorrows and the guru for my non-conformist lifestyle.     The day I turned 18, I booked a flight to Japan in pursuit of a new life, but I was disillusioned by my own naiveté at that time. I came to realize, to my parent’s delight, that I need to adapt myself to society to have a meaningful impact on the world, so I finished high school and moved to Berlin to study Business Psychology. I was lucky enough to do an internship at European parliament in Brussels where my vision of my professional future consolidated itself.     I decided to move to Shanghai for a semester abroad in 2015 and started learning Mandarin Chinese intensively. Fascinated by the technologization of China, I wrote my bachelor thesis in German about AI and digitalization. After graduating, I moved to Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous province, in 2016 to learn Mongolian and started my master’s degree at Inner Mongolia University in Philosophy of Science and Technology. I am currently writing my thesis, “Techno-Theology: A Theandric Vision”, in Chinese.     Besides my academic research, I am a Mongolian ethnic music enthusiast, practicing both throatsinging and the horsehead fiddle, and started learning Mongolian folk wrestling, known locally as Bokh. I am a regular visitor of the Daoist Five Immortals temple in Wudangshan and am the president of the Luxembourg Nomadic Games Federation.

• Bachelor of Arts – Economic Psychology – EBC Hochschule Berlin, 2016
• Bachelor of Arts – Economic Psychology – EBC Hochschule Berlin, 2016
• Bachelor of Arts – Economic Psychology – EBC Hochschule Berlin, 2016