Although native of Germany I'm a citizen of the United States living temporarily in Germany.  Most of my 50 years have been spent in the USA, where I started fly fishing in Michigan and New Hampshire.  I now live (temporarily) in Germany, but I do most of my angling in close-by Austria, fishing for bows, browns, and grayling, preferably with bamboo and dries.  I frequently return to the States to fish with friends. 

I've been a fly tier for well over 20 years.  I don't specialize in anything, but tie whatever the occasion calls for, be it small parachutes and CDC's for the Austrian streams or big gaudy flies for Alaska.  One of my favorite patterns is the Montana Variant (a Montana Nymph and Wooly Bugger hybrid), pictured below.  It has worked well for me both in Europe and the United States.