Show me in the eye, Nerd!.

Scientists do not have the best reputation when it comes to bill and coo, empathy and compliments go. Potsdamer students now receive advice on how to use SMS rather subtle type of binary code - and amazed that she participated in the first three hours message texts should be.

 

No, they are incapable or not. No, it is not a women's institute free zone. No, they are not nerds, no freaks, no behavioral and socially disturbed technicians. And yes, the clichés hang them out to your neck.

The computer science student in Potsdam are tired of how they arrive in the public arena - and everything just because of a flirting course, the institute offers it.

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Flirt professional Senftleben: Basics for Computer Scientists

A brief announcement, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) sent; headline: "IT students practice flirting via SMS." And then it went off. The preliminary reports read like pure Häme: From "käsiger face paint" and "red, square eyes" knew the "Hamburger Abendblatt" to report from computer science students, "it badly needed," wrote the Berliner Kurier. "

The crowd is great in any case the elective course flirting, the student as well as the media. Hardly any place is more free, almost 300 students are flocking to the hallogenerleuchteten Hörsaal 1, they sit on the window sills and on the stairs, in between camera crews and reporters.

The course is part of the soft skill of the HPI program. Otherwise there are stress management and learning on the program, in February will be ex-Stasi files Envoy Joachim Gauck 20 years on Wall speak last autumn was Guenther Jauch there.

"We are not tumben nerds!" The also want to Andrina Mascher, 20, and Ziawasch Abedjan, 22, get rid of. Both are students at the HPI, both fixed liiert. Why are they here? "Flirting as part of business communication, I am interested in," says Ziawasch. Andrina coordinated precisely which of their friends sit beside her, and then says smilingly, "What life do I want to learn."

Auftritt Instructor: Philip, a flirtatious

Then comes from Senftleben Phillip, 42, in the auditorium. Germany-wide radio listeners know him as the "Flirter" because he is wildly foreign women coaxed her phone number. He does not look like a Lady Killer: dark clothes, black shirt. The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" he told me, on an attractiveness scale give it six out of ten points - with beret seven.

The cap he erstmal and asks: "I'm Phillip - and what I want here?" The first Schmunzler with Andrina. Ziawasch leans forward. "A flirtatious" sets off duzt students learned witnesses and leads into the field. "Man is only through human language," he quotes Wilhelm von Humboldt. The second principle Flirters: flirting is easy. He does not think the war of the sexes and the battle, the other to get into bed.

In addition, he quotes Robert McNamara: "Empathize with your enemy." "Who was Robert McNamara?" He asks the audience. "U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war", calling a return. Phillip, a flirtatious is enthusiastic: "Are you a historian?" No, the IT student has a TV documentary seen.

Since its twelfth year of life interested in the "Flirter" of success - this is one course of success for women. Shy, he had previously been, today he tingelt through the country, seminars, individual lessons and summarized his tips in book form.

Anyone who betrays the "Flirter 'own phone number?

The students get his verbal Einfühlungsgabe to hear: The "Flirter" Radio plays a contribution. He called called the "subtle" and concludes that it must be but a "subtle spirit" have. His number Girl giggles. "A good sign," said Andrina Mascher dry. And indeed: The "Flirter" gets the number of applause in the hall.

Andrina tuschelt with their girlfriends. Had she Phillip also given their number? "Probably so." Does it slimy? No, he was charming. Of these guys could have quietly cut a slice.

According to the preliminary, the erudite and the introduction of case comes Senftleben now to what all the waiting - flirting via SMS. Situation: Car Crash at the lecture. Students should imagine they want to know the accident opponents. The men should imagine Angelina Jolie and Katja call. The "ladies" in the audience to be a blond, muscular man named Phillip think. And they should formulate an SMS.

But stop, "the Flirter" says a few words: "Take your three, four hours for the first SMS." Because it is not private. Surprise when scientists Ziawasch, nodding at his Kommilitonin Andrina. The first SMS shows them all their friends and maybe even the mother. "I was so unaware," he says.

"The crash will pay me, the dinner you"

Andrina picks out her cell phone and an exercise textet SMS. Ziawasch waiting. A flirtatious calls the first examples from the audience: "Hey, Katja, do I pay for the crash, the food you tonight." Phillip praised the courage of the text, Andrina laughs, shaking his head.

The scientists are proposing is not bad. Next example: "Hey Katja, my car would like your car like to see again." Niedlich said the "Flirter" Andrina also finds it sweet.

The first woman text: "Hey Phillip, even if you're sick or need company, I am a good nurse. LG Josi." Some in the audience hoot and a flirtatious explains: "LG is one prohibited." Then he writes on the blackboard: "This is boring." His tip: an adjective, colon, name - "gespannt: Phillip". Otherwise, the text bold and say: "You have advantages if you hit me."

The "Flirter" comes at a delicate case: the compliment. What is it anyway? "Unehrlich," says one in the audience. "That a man can only say," says a flirtatious and emphasizes two words on the blackboard: honest attention.

Honest, but not boring, that's the Flirter important. The fact that a woman has beautiful eyes, which she had already heard a thousand times, says Senftleben. Better was the beginning: "In your eyes is ..." Andrina Mascher warpage mouth skeptical. "Interesting, is only now that he is slimy." Such a thing would not pull it.

The no-go area of Flirtens

At the end lists Senftleben discouraging examples of: "Where did it hurt when you're dropped from the sky?" Large groaning in the room. Or: "Hey, chocolate, you need not fill?" Some guys whistle. Andrina laughs outraged.

Has she learned anything today? No, not really, but it had been entertaining. "Furthermore, his own things that he has great acts with the audience and for us to win," she says.

Ziawasch Abedjan sees the whole pragmatic. He wants to be a few things for the business life rausziehen. But this has a flirtatious but said nothing? "Some things work well stop because" he believes.

Well, they were entertained, however, and the camera crews have their photos - from scientists to learn how to flirt.