About the Author

In this life, Dean Brian Hall, born on the 29th of June 1978 in Wallsend on the outskirts of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England, is an author. In another life, he completed a Bachelor of Arts joint honours degree in modern languages (German & Spanish) at the university of Northumbria before completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Liverpool John Moores University. After spending a number of years working as a translator in Barcelona, where he also learnt Catalan, Dean moved to Germany in 2008 in order to return to language teaching. it was there on a chance visit to Hamburg in 2012 that he first encountered the Reeperbahn. Now, after more than five years researching the history of Hamburg's most famous mile, he has written his first book, Reeperbahn Tour: A Location History of an Entertainment District [2022]. A second book, Reeperbahn: A Location History of a red-light District, is also planned.