Siegfried Eckleben was born in Weimar, Germany on Labour Day, 1944. (It started with labour and he's been labouring ever since). His family fled the Russian Zone of post war Germany in 1949 and emigrated to what is now Namibia. He grew up and attended school in what was then South West Africa. Later he studied electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Having lived and worked mainly in Southern Africa, North and South America, Australia and Europe, he has now retired to Namibia – and another residence on one of the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic. The enigma of the endless universe and concepts such as eternal and infinity awed and intrigued him since childhood and eventually drove him to write the first part of his book. The peculiarities of humans that he was confronted with during his lifetime motivated him to write the second part of BANG. Siegfried speaks five languages and has written articles in English, German and Portuguese.