A truly creative mind buzzing with energy and hip hop in his veins. This sums up Phillip Böndel, the Co-Founder & CEO of “The Ambition” and Managing Director of Digital Consulting at the agency BUTTER pretty well.
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The individually crafted pieces of jewellery by Ariane Ernst Jewelry enjoy great popularity: there are often long queues of eager customers for specials such as the annual birthdays in the store on Bilker Allee. But it‘s not just business that‘s going well in Düsseldorf; Freiburg native Ariane Ernst now loves living here, too.
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Laila Hamidi is the woman to whom celebrities like Nazan Eckes, Franziska Knuppe and Liz Mohn entrust their beauty and have relied on her beauty and fashion sense for many years. As a self-employed beauty artist, she handled numerous glamorous events and travelled around the world.
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The street magazine fiftyfifty, founded in Düsseldorf, is known far beyond the region and has many prominent supporters. VIVID editor Rainer Kunst spoke with managing director Hubert Ostendorf about entrepreneurship,
the current Housing First project, civic engagement and the future of fiftyfifty.
Seit Beginn der Spielzeit 2020/2021 ist Demis Volpi (36) Ballettdirektor und Chefchoreograph des Ballett am Rhein, seit Anfang 2020 lebt er auch in Düsseldorf. Bereits in dieser kurzen Zeit hat der Deutsch-Argentinier, der mit zahlreichen Kultur-Preisen ausgezeichnet wurde, die Stadt in sein Herz geschlossen.
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Aida Rizvo describes herself as a down-to-earth free spirit. Growing up as a child of so-called guest workers in the Ruhr region, she had a steep career at Henkel and C&A, among others, founded her own consulting company in Asia and is now CEO of the medium-sized company JEMAKO in Münsterland.
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Jonas van Blanken is quite a diverse entrepreneur: he is a perfumer and founder of the brand OSKAR Natural Skincare, managing director and co-founder of the film and photo production company CIRCL Studio and managing director and co-founder of the event studio CIRCL Space. The 36-year-old has lived in very different places around the globe – until he lost his heart in and to Düsseldorf.
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During a walk in Benrath’s Schlosspark Marie-Eve Schröder ,Group Director DACH Region, spoke with VIVID publisher Rainer Kunst about plans and visions of Meta and the Metaverse, about data protection and fake news on the internet, the role of sustainability in a tech company – and about her love for the state capital.
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Due to a flour dust allergy, he has not set foot inside the bakery for some time. And even in his shops, he will rarely sell Hinkelsteine, Kifferkruste and Elsässer bread from behind the counter due to a lack of time: Josef Hinkel has been deputy mayor of the state capital for more than a year and he will leave his mark as a CDU politician.
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She learned how to cook and run a household from her grandmother in Poland, but to make a profession out of it? Agata Reul veered between cook and florist. However, when she came to Germany, she trained as a cook in the legendary high-class restaurant “Victorian” a few steps away from Königsallee. Only a year after opening her own restaurant “Agata's” in Düsseldorf, her cuisine was awarded a Michelin star in 2013. Since then, she has been the only Polish woman in Germany to own a Michelin-starred restaurant.
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Lucas Sauberschwarz is Managing Director of the strategy consultancy Venture Idea, Director of the Centre for Innovation at the SGMI Management Institute St. Gallen and best-selling author. Because the Düsseldorf native wanted to be at the centre of innovation in Germany, he founded his company in Berlin in 2010. After five years, he moved Venture Idea's headquarters to Düsseldorf - for good reasons.
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How does an international airport deal with a global pandemic and the restrictions it imposes? Why is this place a key hub for all forms of transport? What role does climate neutrality play? And how can an airport become digitally transformed even further? VIVID publisher Rainer Kunst discussed this and much more with Thomas Schnalke, CEO of the international airport in Düsseldorf.
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Since 2003 he has topped the world rankings four times, at the European Championships he won seven titles in singles and five in doubles, at the World Championships he came third in singles and was runner-up in doubles: Timo Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time so far - and a star in China, the country of the table tennis world champions. The 40-year-old is not only popular for his fair play in sport, but also for his great social commitment to people in need. He has been under contract with the top German League team Borussia Düsseldorf since 2006.
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Every year, about 200,000 people in Germany develop Alzheimer's disease, a condition that is as of yet incurable. Scientists from all over the world are searching for the causes in order to decipher the disease and develop effective drugs. One of them is Annette Limke. She has a doctorate in biology and is investigating the effects of ultra-fine particulate on the risk of Alzheimer's disease. An interview with the 32-year-old about exhaust fumes, the goal of her research project and her love of nature.
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Düsseldorf's Lord Mayor Dr Stephan Keller (CDU) has been in office for about nine months. On a joint racing bike tour, VIVID editor Rainer Kunst spoke with him about a very special start in office, future transport and economic policy, the importance of table tennis for Düsseldorf's health and the need for a 700-million-euro opera house.
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As artistic director, Michael Becker has since 2007 provided the Tonhalle Düsseldorf with a profile that is unique in Germany. VIVID editor Rainer Kunst spoke with the musician and journalist about concert hall business in times of the pandemic, the art of simple communication and a rather loyal international audience.
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As Director General of the Japan External Trade Organization JETRO Düsseldorf, Dai Ueda acts as a link between German and Japanese cooperation partners. In October 2020, the Tokyo native was sent to the state capital for the second time to promote foreign direct investment to Japan as well as the export and expansion of Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises in foreign markets. The 58-year-old passionate hobby violinist and Robert Schumann fan lives here with his wife and daughter.
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One of the women who have achieved great renown in the art scene is Katharina Sieverding. Since the 1970s, she has been creating large-format montages on current social issues. Her best-known works include the photographic work “Schlachtfeld Deutschland” (Battlefield Germany) from 1978, a statement on the RAF era, and the poster campaign “Deutschland wird deutscher” (Germany becomes German) in 1993 in Berlin, which addressed the radical right-wing attacks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. An interview with the artist about art in times of the pandemic, her teacher Joseph Beuys and her political statements.
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The InterContinental on Königsallee is one of the top addresses in Düsseldorf, especially for international guests. Since 2016 Britta Kutz is its hotel manager. In an interview that took place beginning of November, at the start of the second lockdown, she talks about crisis management, cultural diversity and the desire to pack your bags.
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Since October 2017 Felix Krämer has been General Director of the Kunstpalast. Against the backdrop of a huge building site, VIVID-editor Rainer Kunst was in conversation with him about plans for the future, the museum business in the times of lockdown and the engagement of companies and people.
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