PROFESSION, PRACTICE, PRODUCTIONS
A few newspaper articles that deal with my short films.
10/2013 - today
Permanent position as a video producer at CHIP Digital GmbH in Munich. I shoot and edit videos about new cameras and other gadgets from the digital lifestyle business.
08/2012 - 07/2013
One year video editor at Publicis Erlangen. At Publicis, I was editor, director, copywriter and organizer of editorial videos, especially for Siemens. Furthermore I was working in an editorial team that produces BtoB magazines for Siemens.
11/2008 - 03/2012
Permanent position as a video producer at CBS Interactive Ltd. in
Munich. I produced for 3 editorial offices: www.zdnet.de / www.cnet.de / www.silicon.de - I was
camera man, video editor and also voice-over artist: A video one man show. In
collaboration with tech editors I produced product videos, interviews, trade show videos (Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, CeBIT in Hannover,
IFA in Berlin), gadget videos and marketing videos for the sales department.
10/2007 - 02/2008
Short film „Masks of society“ [diploma thesis]
03/2007 - 06/2007
Short film „Trash-Junkie“, Work with miniature camcorder /
Experimental Film "The daily struggle“ [Super 8, In-Camera Editing] /
Short „Everyone needs love“ for „eDward - The Young
Filmmaker‘s Award“-
Reaching the 10 finalists for submissions from around the world.
10/2006 - 02/2007
6-month internship at "referenz film Imagefilmproduktion", (Production company for promotional films) - Working in the graphics department - production and post production - attending event and industrial film shoots - camera assistant - working with After Effects and Photoshop
03/2006 - 06/2006
Experimental film „END-scheidung“ - visualization of one of my self-written poems / Documentary "People's Voice - reflections on the naturalization test"
Hessian (German) naturalization test applied to pedestrians in Würzburg
10/2005 - 02/2006
Production of the International corporate video of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt - Visual impression of the individual departments and
portrayal of the cities of Würzburg and Schweinfurt. Goal of the production was
the
recruitment of new students and lecturers from
abroad.
03/2005 - 06/2005
Trailer "Casual driving!" - created for the
"road safety campaign Bavaria 2006"
of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Interior minister Günther Beckstein priced the short film in March 2006 with 500 Euro.
/ Experimental Typography Trailer:
Combining typography and film.
10/2004 - 02/2005
First short film "end"
/ Specialization on filmmaking after
one year of photography lessons / Graphic
design: I created a
cinema magazine with self-written reviews of my favorite movies
10/2003 - 06/2004
interest in photography, as well as projects in graphic design, illustration,
text and typography. One example: An installation called "Typography outdoors":
I sprayed the Goethe quotation "fate of people like you are like the wind!" on
three 10-meter flags and handed them to the wind.
06/2003 - 07/2003
Six weeks internship at "Riegg & Partners advertising agency" in the department of graphics.
08/2002 - 09/2003
At the time of community service I was freelancer at Radio Mainwelle Bayreuth, co-talker of the movie reviews
program, movie reporter, audio editing, creation of
a comedy section
of radio plays and comedy [e.g. www.youtube.com/kaempfaudio ]
EDUCATION
10/2003 - 03/2008
Communication design studies at the Faculty of Design of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg - Focus on film / video. At the beginning I focused on photography. Diploma with "very good" (score 1.4), diploma and graduation film "masks of the society".
10/1993 - 06/2002
High School Gymnasium Christian-Ernestinum
Bayreuth, General qualification for unversity entrance: Abitur 2002 / Art as advanced courses / Research
paper, "Personal poems
illustrated with own poems" / Early on I had a strong interest in art / Successful participation in art competitions [Europe-Competition, Monument Care Competition] and poetry contests.