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1947
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Bombolo, originally Norbert Graubner, was born in Weinbach near the River Lahn.
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1962-65
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Left family home and village to begin apprenticeship as chef.
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1965-70
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Worked and travelled as a chef on ships of the Holland America Line, visiting North and Central America, Polynesia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
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1970-83 |
Opened first French restaurant, ‘La Bonne Auberge’ in Koenigstein/Ts. Then came the Hard Rock Café and Waikiki Bar in Frankfurt. |
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1984
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Began a total rebuild of the 1905 Pilot Cutter `Fair Dawn’, once belonging to Earnest Hemingway. She has now found a home at the Museum Port of Flensburg.
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1985
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Sailed throughout the Danish Islands of the Baltic with his painter friend Volker Meier on his Gaff Schooner `Aurora von Altona’.
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1986-87
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Visited Hopi and Navajo reservations in the Southwestern United states. Worked for two years in Aspen, Colorado. Met Georgia O’Keefe in Abiquiu and sculptor Alan Houser in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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1988
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Travelled to the Island of Maui in Hawaii. |
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1989
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Spent the Summer months between London and the Cornish coast of England.
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1991
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Retreated to the Zen Monastery Hosshin-ji, under the tutelage of Abbot Harada Sekkei Roshi near Obama-shi, Japan.
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1992
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1992 Made first Exhibition of paintings. |
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1993
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Travelled with Harada Sekkei Roshi to Leh, Alchi, Lamayuru and to the Hemis festival in Ladakh, Himalayas, N. India.
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1994
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Returned to S.W.United States to visit more Indian Reservations.
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1995
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Film Documentary started - `Safety is an Illusion’. |
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1996
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Returned to Hosshin-ji to finish film. |
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1997
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Showing of `Safety is an Illusion’ by German TV station BR III.
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2002
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Travelled to Alaska for painting. |
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2003
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Publication of `Neruda Blau’ by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Grotze for the National Library of German Poetry, illustrated by Bombolo. |
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2004-07
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Various projects, studies and International exhibitions
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