The Tide of Fortune

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„Millions of idle hours have to trickle away before one truly historical, one magical moment of humanity appears.” We wonder what the wonderful, never equalled Stefan Zweig might have had to say about the political events of the last weeks. His judgement would probably, as often, depend on the consequences that will follow. In a historical context, the dimension and range of current events become classifiable and logical elements of what we take for granted as our history. In his worldwide bestseller ‚Sternstunden der Menschheit‘ (The Tide of Fortune), Stefan Zweig unites fourteen great, fateful moments in the history of mankind: from Waterloo to the creation of Goethe’s famous Marienbad Elegy to Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic expedition to the South Pole. The episodes are told in a pictorial, comprehendible and suspenseful language that makes you wish you had encountered them with a little more magic and less numbers and dates during school. His accounts have granted generations a real, almost immediate understanding of history in political as well as cultural sense. History is timeless and keeping it alive is an art. For this reason, book artist Jörg Hülsmann, designed, illustrated and interpreted the fourteen historical miniatures for the newly published book ‚Sternstunden der Menschheit– ein Stück Weltliteratur neu gesehen‘. His illustrations not only shed new light on a famous piece of world literature, they form an own wonderful work of art together with the words. This book is so beautiful that, once you’ve opened it, you never want to put it down again and carry it with you everywhere you go. It feels like an anchor of reason, printed on paper, like the alternative draft to all the social-media-hate-troll-tirades. Human greatness and weakness, fate and character are, as this collection teaches us, the defining factors of our lives – always have been and always will be. This book turns its readers into better people. Love rules!
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Sternstunden der Menschheit – Ein Stück Weltliteratur neu gesehen | S. Fischer Verlag | 30 Euro | Webshop

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Alice Carla Steinbrück

The 2 Minute-Interview

Alice Carla Steinbrück is Head of Social Business at the Vodafone Institute. Which, in turn, deals with the question of how digital and mobile technologies can increase political, social and economic participation and enable access to education. Resulting in such valuable projects as F-LANE, the newly launched first European accelerator with a focus on start-ups by or for women in the tech-sector. Alice drafted and now manages the entire project. Together, we created and designed the brand and now she has to deal with the aftermath. Many fantastic applications of great female entrepreneurs have been coming in over the last couple of days and now have to be screened by her and her marvellous team to filter out the top ten. If you want to make her work just a little harder, you have until November 18th to enter yourself and your business idea in the race at www.f-lane.com/online-application. And if you’re looking for a little inspiration for your letter of application, you’ll find it in the lines below. An inspiring two-minute-interview about duck’s feet, beaming super powers, complex problems and three-course-menus.

Name: Alice Carla Steinbrück
Age: 31
Home: Berlin
Profession: Head of Social Business at the Vodafone Institute
Shoe size: 37
Favourite place: La Cadière d’Azur (a small town in southern France)
Contact:alice.steinbrueck@vodafone.com

Why can only women save the world from ruin?
Women can’t save the world all alone! But neither can men!

Is humanity on a good path?
That question falls into my post-Trump-shock-week. So at the moment, I see a lot of room for improvement.

The most inspiring personality you’ve ever encountered?
I recently got to know a multitude of inspiring, strong women such as Dupsy Abiola or Lisa Witter, who decided to start a business despite the difficulties and are incredibly positive and energetic. Because there is a lack of female role models, these women inspire me greatly – for my own path, as well.

How can you tell that you’ve grown up?
With the help of a simple formula: growing responsibility minus the freedom to just drop everything tomorrow and wake up in a new life. Although I do think that we should all try to never grow up completely.

What would you do without the internet?
After the first shock, I would realise how long 24 hours can be. And then, sooner or later, desperation would set in!

Why can’t one solve complex problems with simple answers?
I can’t tell you because I believe the exact opposite. Sometimes, complex problems can be solved very well with simple answers. I think we’ve just started making our world even more complex than it already is.

What can every human do right now to make the world a better place?
Tolerance, openness and curiosity are three important characteristics that could improve our lives together significantly.

What colour does a chameleon change to if it’s sitting in a room with walls covered in mirrors?
It changes up and down the colour palette while dancing…

Would you rather fight a duck the size of a horse or one hundred horses the size of a duck?
I think neither is ideal. But I’ll lean towards the horse-sized duck. Although the proportions of its beak and duck feet do have me worried already.

Which super power would you like to possess?
I’d like to have beaming super powers. How wonderful it would be to beam myself out of the tube to a beach in the south pacific in the mornings. Although I do have to admit it would be kind of an egotistical super power.

What would you cook for us if we came to visit you at home?
Unfortunately, I am a terrible cook – but I have mastered one tried and tested, never changing three-course-menu that enables me to dazzle guests on their first and only visit, at least.

Which famous personality would you like to go for cup of coffee with?
I would like to meet the Queen – although it would probably be tea, then. As the head of 53 states and with her life experience, she must have seen and heard everything and have quite a lot of wisdom to share.

What are you afraid of?
I’m afraid that we’re starting to stop questioning things and are falling for demagogues.

When was the last time you tried something new and what was it?
I find it incredibly fun to dive into new projects – like the accelerator – without really knowing what the outcome will be. Trying new things like travelling through foreign countries, ordering the duck’s feet in the Asian restaurant or just turning things upside down professionally really gives you the feeling of being alive.

Last words: Merci

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Kategorien: People | Autor: | Datum: 16. November 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , |  Keine Kommentare

What’s cooking?

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A short while ago, we were allowed to be there when the ecological mobile Fairphone was awarded the Blue Angel, the German government’s certification for the protection of humans and the environment. We met all kinds of people who care deeply about our planet and got to know the fantastic Filipino performance artist Pepe Dayaw. Pepe works with leftovers. Leftover food, to be precise. With everything that’s left over in supermarkets or that people have found in the back row of their fridge. And this is how that came about: During an artist residency in Berlin, Pepe dealt with the negative connotations of leftovers in the western world – and noticed how different the view on scraps is here compared to the culture in which he grew up. There, one person’s leftovers are always the next person’s opportunity. Every Thursday, the Nowhere Kitchen in the Uferstraße cooks with what’s there. Without recipes, without instructions but with a lot of zest and improvisation. The result is always uncertain, there are no limits. Mix that spinach with strawberries? Why not? Purée a dry Bundt cake? Okay! Just shred everything through the grater and invent a new kind of hash brown? Sure! If you know how. His integrative cooking is, above all, an ode to democracy. Anyone can join in, there is no chef. After all, there’s nothing more enjoyable than cooking together. Well, perhaps eating together. Which can happen here, too. If you want to try it out, drop by tomorrow in the New Leftover Space. Why? There are 45 kilos of cheese left over. Yummy!
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Nowhere Kitchen | nowherekitchen.com | Facebook

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Kategorien: Projects | Autor: | Datum: 16. November 2016 | Tags: , , , , , |  Keine Kommentare

54 Hours of Future

Industry 4.0? Robotics? Digital Business? Clouds? If this is all Greek to you, you better get ready for the future: the hub conference in Berlin has been looking forward since 2012 and discussing, visualising and presenting the world of the day after tomorrow. And it will be doing this again on November 22nd from 9 a.m., open end. The focus lies on the question: How is digital transformation influencing my business? Ideas and answers seek and find a colourful mix of people. In a unique way, established economy, innovative start-ups and digital economy meet up here. More than 130 speakers on six stages outline scenarios of a digital future or present best practice examples. Amongst them are big players such as the CEO of the German Stock Exchange, Carsten Kengeter or the Executive Vice President of Microsoft, Jean-Philippe Courtois. Equally, founders of successful start-ups have their say: Leticia Gasca, founder of the Fuckup Night, the global format for de-tabooing failure or Céline Lazorthes of Leetchi, a crowdfunding platform for concerns of the heart. Seminal topics such as digital city, intelligent mobility, crypto currency and bioinformatics are going to discussed. 6×9 hours of listening, learning and commenting. Additionally, the hub conference offers unusual opportunities for exchanging with awesome think tanks and pimping up your network.
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hub conference | November 22nd, 2016 | Station Berlin, Luckenwalder Straße 4-6, 10963 Berlin | Tickets start at 780 € | Website

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Kategorien: Events | Autor: | Datum: 16. November 2016 | Tags: , , , , , |  Keine Kommentare

Still Wanted: Office, 200 sqm and more

We are reaching our capacity limit. Meaning: we are looking for a new space for our sweet little agency, at least 200sqm., preferably in Kreuzberg and Neukölln – but anywhere else will do fine as well. Several separate rooms or the possibility to create them are a must, nice neighbours and factory flair a plus, a small storage space on site would be nice to have. We’re low-maintenance, quiet and really pretty nice. If you know somewhere or know someone who knows somewhere… you know. Give us a shout at studio@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

Wanted: 1-2 room flat

I, event manager, 23 years old, am looking for a cosy 1-2 room flat, preferably in Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain or Kreuzberg as soon as possible for up to 600 Euro incl. heating and maintenance. I’m easy-going, tidy, a non-smoker without pets or loud musical hobbies. If you know somewhere or know someone who knows somewhere… send me an email to michelle.kemp93@gmail.com. I will reward good leads with ice cream or Luxembourgian pastry.

Wanted: Vintage clothes

I, 32 – PR and press girl in real life for a magazine that mainly deals with architecture, urban development and design – am looking for “discarded stage attire”. From evening gowns to fancy frocks. Before these clothes rot in the dark, I want to put them in the spotlight. If you have something for me or want to shine with useful leads, please email me at susanne.peick@gmx.de. Can’t wait, thank you in advance!

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If I Only Knew…

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How exactly does our brain work? How did the universe come into being? Why are some brands successful and others not? And how can I get a grip on that migraine? We want to know everything and so often, the answer to everything seems just one click away. But most of the time, what we read in forums, Wikipedia articles and social media posts doesn’t really lead to satisfactory enlightenment or life-changing insights. Information yes, knowledge no. Why can no one answer the questions of our time in digestible portions, so that we can not just hear them, but understand and take them with us. The founders of Highbrow asked themselves exactly that question. And answered it themselves straight away: Highbrow fills our daily knowledge gaps with free courses that we can have sent to our inbox daily. Divided into 5-minute-workshops, the courses on offer from the areas art, philosophy, history, cooking, science, nature, languages, etc. make us a little wiser each day. If you don’t want to specialise on one area of expertise, you can just browse through all of them merrily – or take on the Highbrow Challenge and let chance decide what you’ll learn every day for 30 days. So now you know. A little more each day, that is.
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Highbrow | gohighbrow.com

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Julia Haneke

The 2 Minute-Interview

Julia Haneke used to work in a large law firm. Whew. Is what she thought, too, and swapped the robe for cubes. Okay, that’s a bit hard to understand without an explanation – so let us help. Julia recently became the young and dynamic managing director of stobuco, a pretty genius modular shelf system made in Berlin. We finally have one of our own in our office now and are so thrilled, that we would like to re-design it every day. Because that’s done in seconds flat. We got to know and love Julia at the stocubo showroom opening in October and put her right at the top of our two-minute-interview-wish-list. Crafts and trades, male dominated? Pffff, Ms. Chancellor, may we have a word about fancy-dress-boxes, IKEA and last drinks.

Name: Julia Haneke
Age: 34
Home: Berlin
Profession: Geschäftsführerin von stocubo
Shoe size: 40
Favorite furniture: Was für eine Frage… meine Cubes natürlich ;)
Contact: www.stocubo.de

What does your home look like?
A mix of period property (I actually live in one of these old, Berliner flats with a whole lot of patina and an old lease), a few pieces of furniture and, of course, cubes in different variations.

There’s a fire and you can only save one personal belonging from your home. What would it be?  
My piano – even though I have been failing to take up playing again for years. ;)

Your favourite weakness?
That I’m so easy to persuade.

Please complete: For one day, I would like to be…
Chancellor (But with a clear focus on the one day)

Your favourite toy as a child?
My fancy-dress-box with real treasures from my mother’s seventies-wardrobe. Unfortunately, my mother is now significantly shorter than me and her feet three sizes smaller.

Tell us a joke!
Ikea

What can’t you get enough of?
Sun and last drinks.

You’re allowed one sin – which forbidden thing would you do?
Remind me of everything that’s a sin again, please.

What do butterflies have in their stomachs when they’re in love?
Champagne

Which book, film and record should everyone have read, seen and heard?
Book: Jonathan Franzen, Purity
Film: Lost in Translation
Record: Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony

What would you cook for us if we came to visit you at home?
A happy rump steak, sautéed in one piece and them gently roasted in the oven until medium rare, served with side of pumpkin in some form, pumpkin is always a good idea.

What are you afraid of?
AfD

What would you change immediately if you had the power to?
Common sense and reflection for all.

What should no one know about you?
Which sin I really would like to commit.

Which question should we have asked?
What’s the best shelf system in the world?

Last words:
<This space is probably meant for something very clever that just won’t come to me at the moment, so I’ll leave it up to my PR agency :)> (We like that, we’ll just leave it like that, editor’s note)

 

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Live hack

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Imagine you have an idea. And a group of competent, clever people immediately starts making it happen. On November 10th at 4.30 p.m., the doors of the dpa Newsroom are opening for a very special network event. The Hackathon of the German Press Agency is inviting you to look into innovative ideas around the topic of NEWS JOURNALISM and to shape them. Hacking isn’t just evil digital breaking and entering your neighbour’s virtual garden, but, first and foremost, technical tinkering with a passion. For three days, makers full of ideas are meeting in a start-up atmosphere to investigate how journalism could work in the future. You can pitch your own ideas or join in on an introduced idea with your skills and knowledge and help turn it into reality.  After three days, it’s presentation time and the most genius ideas are selected. Brain and finger food is taken care of, work will commence all night long. Turning ideas into reality in record time. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the Hackathon to the stormiest brains amongst you. Send us an email headlining ‚I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER‘ to hurra@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

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Tickertools – The dpa News Hackathon | November 10th to 12th | dpa newsroom, Markgrafenstraße 20, 10969 Berlin | Registration

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WANTED: PR Intern

We’re always looking for exciting people that fit in with us and make our muxmäuschenwild team even better.  At the moment, we’re on the look-out for a motivated PR-intern from December 1st for 3-6 months. You’ll get an insight into all areas of PR work, support the PR-team in maintaining the database, doing research and press clipping as well as taking care of our clients. We are preferably looking for people who want to establish themselves and grow into being a long-term part of our team. We are friendly, fair and sometimes actually pretty funny. You have spice, enthusiasm, stamina, you can identify with muxmäuschenwild, have a driver’s license and know why and above all, you are excited about putting your whole heart into your work for our clients and own projects? Bingo! Send your application to team@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

WANTED: Freelance Grafic Designers

We’re looking for flexible and good graphic designers for our complex and dizzyingly diversified design tasks. You’re a master of your trade and are, like us, convinced that good design is more about fitness for purpose than just pure beauty? The term CD doesn’t make you think of music and you know that communication isn’t just about logos and pretty fonts? You’re inquisitive, diligent and put your heart and soul into your work? Go on then, send us your application including a substantial portfolio to robert.felgentreu@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

WANTED: Cleaning Fairy

From January on, our wonderful cleaning fairy can’t magic our offices clean anymore. That’s why we’re looking for an industrious, reliable cleaner to clean our beloved MMW office in Prenzlauer Berg once a week in the evening or at the weekends. We pay the invoices punctually and sometimes even hide biscuits with personal notes. Applications, references and recommendations can be sent to team@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

WANTED: Office, 200qm and more

We are reaching our capacity limit. Meaning: we are looking for a new space for our sweet little agency, at least 200sqm., preferably in Kreuzberg and Neukölln – but anywhere else will do fine as well. Several separate rooms or the possibility to create them are a must, nice neighbours and factory flair a plus, a small storage space on site would be nice to have. We’re low-maintenance, quiet and really pretty nice. If you know somewhere or know someone who knows somewhere… you know. Give us a shout at studio@muxmaeuschenwild.de.

Give us all your pins!

We hereby officially awaken our beloved and wrongly forgotten PIN BOARD column back to life. This is the space for your and our job offers and job applications, your ads for flats, flat shares or subleases, lonely heart ads or car pooling offers – for everything you want or need. Just send us an email to redaktion@muxmaeuschenwild.de and we’ll pin it right here, spreading the news to many, many thousands of people, companies and media in our gigantic muxmäuschenwild network. Don’t be shy!

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Kategorien: Pinboard | Autor: | Datum: 09. November 2016 | Tags: , , , , |  Keine Kommentare