New logo, new business card - looks terrific! Thanks to Design Bureau Hardy Seiler.
“We need inspirators” says Professor Gerald Hüther, one of Germany’s leading brain scientists, about his quest for a “brain-just” way of leadership - encouraging, not imperative, inviting, not punitive.
Hüther demands leaders who rouse the potentials in their employees instead of keeping them down, making them do only what they were hired for. I did the interview for DER SPIEGEL WISSEN, a supplement of Germany’s most widely read weekly news mag.
On the last stop of my world trip searching for people that are connected to music for French-German ARTE TV, I visited Danny Troyer, a member of the super-old fashioned, protestant Amish community in Indiana, USA.
Amish are not allowed to drive cars, have electricity or use phones, neither to play instruments or listen to rock music. Well, and then there is Danny - see yourself.
(video in English and German)
Alicia Ortega is leading the biggest Panama hat factory in the world, situated in Cuenca, Ecuador, where the hats where invented, despite of their name.
I shot this video for German news agency dpa, it was edited and produced by Christina Horsten.
Just released: Wild Trip Brazil for iPad and iPhone
Being the first in a new series of genius travel apps, Wild Trip Brazil is a great tool for couch-travelers or anyone preparing for a trip to Brazil. Nearly 300 geo-located pictures with in-depth captions take you on National Geographic writer Robert Jacobi’s journey across the country.
I took part in developing and editing the app. Further destinations will include Burma, Argentina, Mexico and Ecuador, the latter featuring me as an author.
Two former Ferrostaal bosses plead guilty and escape imprisonment, paying about 60.000 € each - report for Expresso, Portugal’s leading weekly newspaper
While reporting from SXSW Music Conference 2011, in Austin, Texas, I shot the official showcase of Schlachthofbronx, the infamous Munich-based Tropical Bass duo, at Friend’s Bar on 6th Street. Farafina!
my worldwide music blog for arte.tv
From 2009 to 2011, I traveled around the world, producing the first-ever videoblog that connects music people from the outermost places like Papua New Guinea, Ghana or Tonga. The blog got awarded with the Axel Springer Price for Young Journalists. The blog itself is entirely in German, but four stories are also available in English:
1. Forecast: Cloudy
In April 2011, I asked five experts between New York and San Francisco if they think the future of consuming music will be cloud based services: http://tonspur.arte.tv/?p=2128
2. The Queen of Konkonuru
In autumn 2010, I accompanied Bob Marley’s widow Rita for three days in her new home country, Ghana: http://tonspur.arte.tv/?p=2131
3. Ethiopian Idol
Shooting Melaku Belaye, Ethiopia’s best dancer and leading figure of the Azmari scene in Addis Abeba: http://vimeo.com/33223209
4. March on!
The story of Samoa Police Brass Band’s leader Filipo Lesa is special - nobody knew there would be a brass band on the tiny South Pacific island of Samoa that is playing German marches every day: http://vimeo.com/32666734
A marine iguana, shot on Galápagos Islands during my recent trip to Ecuador.
