We won!
We won!!! Super happy that our animation project won the Heroines in Series – Contest!!! Out of 96 submissions, 6 winning concepts were selected and my co-author and I got to cheer đ„łđ„łđ„ł
For those who do not know what this competition is about:
The “Bundesministerium fĂŒr Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort” has organized the script competition “Heroines in Series” with the aim of developing series formats that portray women characters in the fields of MINT – mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology. The exposĂ©s submitted are intended to show positive role models and, above all, encourage girls to become active in these fields. This year, the focus was on ideas for series for a young target audience, family series for children aged 6 and up, and teenagers.
Of course I, as a nerd, had to take part đ
Crime Series here I come…
Very excited to tell you, that I was hired to write the pilot episode for a new crime series! A new genre for me to conquer and I dare say: I think I might make an excellent detective. Or criminal. đ
For this I spend a lot of time on research. Research on police work, criminal reports, all kinds of different deaths and murder weapons and really everything you can imagine connected to people in general lol. Ah, and the joy of watching a lot of different crime series already out there…
Stay tuned for more news. Crime Series here I come!
Warum schreibe ich gern fĂŒr Kinder?
Ich liebe Kindergeschichten. Denn gute Kindergeschichten enthalten Tiefe und Lebenswahrheit in einfachen und humorvollen Worten. Jeder versteht sie. Sie sind wie SchĂ€tze mit denen du deine Vorratskammern fĂŒllst, und deren Reichtum sich fĂŒr dich im Leben im richtigen Augenblick erschlieĂt. Gute Kindergeschichten sind reine Philosophie. Sie können komplexe Gedanken, Wertvorstellungen, Lebensauffassungen mit einfachen Worten so ausdrĂŒcken, dass sogar Kinder sie verstehen. Und jedes Kind sollte die Möglichkeit von Tiefe in seinem Leben in Geschichten erfahren dĂŒrfen. Denn Kinder sind sehr tiefgrĂŒndige Menschen, deren Fragen Erwachsene oft sprachlos machen.
FĂŒr diese wachsenden Kinder schreibe ich meine Geschichten. Ich möchte mit meinen Geschichten ihre komplexen und offenen Seelen wĂŒrdigen. Ich schreibe Geschichten, die fĂŒr Kinder angstfrei sind und sie in ihren Fragestellungen an die Welt unterstĂŒtzen und beflĂŒgeln.
Kinder verdienen so viel mehr Respekt als ihnen von der Welt oft zugestanden wird. Meine ErzĂ€hlungen sind Lebensthemen, sie schmecken leicht philosophisch, sind mit Humor gewĂŒrzt und haben immer eine tiefe Botschaft fĂŒr die Kleinen.
Den Begriff âpĂ€dagogisch wertvollâ finde ich dafĂŒr trotzdem nicht treffend. Dabei entsteht das Bild, dass den Kindern eine Moral mit erhobenen Zeigefinger aufs Auge gedrĂŒckt wird. Die Botschaft meiner Geschichten soll vielmehr die Eigenschaften eines Schlucks Wasser besitzen: Sie soll leicht zu trinken sein, den Durst stillen und dem Körper anschlieĂend Energie geben fĂŒrs Leben. Das ist mir sehr wichtig. Wie ein Schluck Wasser auf vielen Ebenen wirkt, stelle ich diese AnsprĂŒche auch an meine Geschichten fĂŒr Kinder.
Comic soon
In case you didnât know, I LOVE comics. They have been part of my life since forever. Currently Iâm very much into MANGAS, especially into sport mangas. Yep. Believe it or not, even though Iâm a writer and sitting a lot in front of the screen, Iâm a sucker for sports đ And while I was sitting on my couch, reading my precious mangas, I suddenly thought: You know what, I want to write a sports manga.
So Iâm excited to tell you that I did! At least a teaser-manga that is ten pages long.
Thanks to a good friend I was connected with a great manga illustrator from Austria and we worked on those pages the last month. The art looks great and the people who read it were looking forward to know more about the story.
So heads up â the manga is going to be published online in the near future for everyone to read. Wooohoooo!!!!
More infos & details coming soon!
Storytelling School Podcast
Remember the bedtime stories app? Well, the updated version of the app will now also offer a storytelling school. The courses will be like podcast episodes, which will teach you and your family everything about awesome storytelling.
The best thing: it is FREE. You just need the app to listen to it. So if you want to know more about storytelling, I can highly recommend it. Maybe also because I wrote some of the episodes ;). So you will have fun listening to it.
Click here to get more information about it.
Making of
In case you donât know anything about âSilent Tuningâ: it is a online tutorial series with the Austrian snowboard legend Sigi Grabner.
Iâm responsible for the whole concept and also the shooting, and in order to make some nice episodes we teamed up with the guys from RedRabbit Film.
This time we made sure to make some pictures as well, so you can have a peek behind the scenes. Because even though it is âjustâ a tutorial, it still needs a lot of time and precise effort to make it look so good and easy for everybody to understand. đ
You will find the finished episode on the SG Snowboards channel on youtube, vimeo and on their official website, too. Make sure to leave a comment there, if the tutorial was to your liking, because itâs always nice to hear when the effort paid off. đ
If you want to watch more episodes and snowboard clips, go to the SG Snowboards youtube channel.
And here the finished tutorial episode for the SG Performance Bindings. Enjoy!
Audio book
Some awesome news on the Lilly the Witch front again. My episodes are now also available as an audio book at Random House. Both episodes together on one CD! How convenient đ
So if you are maybe not sure yet what to buy your kids for Christmas, this might be an idea. No pressure, of course đ