DIMI DUMORTIER
Dimi Dumortier (born 1966 in Brecht, Belgium) has many ‘hats’: the artist, the activist, the film maker, the social worker/psychologist, the musician and, yes, the actor. Well, he is that type of person, distanced enough from his ego, to see life as a big ‘act’ in itself….. Above all, I guess, he is an independent […]
MOHAMMED EL GHARANI
Gharani, born 1986 in Medina, and his story are not totally unknown; however, much less than it should be and worse, throughout the ten+ years since his release from unlawful, most cruel and utterly unjustified imprisonment in Guantanamo he is still being denied justice and an ordinary life – of which this Giraffe even does not complain: […]
PIA SCHMID
While looking for some exquisite silk in down town Bern we accidentally got attracted by a little shop. When we opened the door we were received by a small, tender woman with shining eyes – Pia Schmid! «After having worked for two years with Afghan refugees on the Indian subcontinent I couldn’t forget the plight […]
DR. THO HA VINH
As an ambassador for Gross National Happiness (GNH), Dr. Tho Ha Vinh, born in France, the child of a French mother and a Vietnamese father, has become known in wide circles – in the German-speaking world through his book Grundrecht auf Glück (Basic Right to Happiness), and in many European cities through his lectures and […]
LUCIEN (CHRIS) MALINS
In 2001 Lucien Malins, better known as Chris, agreed a sabbatical year from his work at a Waldorf School in the UK in order to try to bring a progressive form of education to an evolving alternative community in La Alpujarra region of southern Spain. After moving with his young family to live in a […]
EMIL RUSTIGE
Emil was an adventurous and inventive kid, enjoying long travels across continents with his parents when he was only three years old. He engaged in building huts in the woods as well as inventing a pancake-cooling-machine. And he loves soccer and is an enthusiast percussionist. But one day he got annoyed that his parents seemed […]
BURKHART VEIGEL
“He had found his place in the world. He knew he was doing the right thing: he gave others freedom.” When the Berlin wall went up in 1961 Burkhart was studying medicine in his second year at FU Free University Berlin. When he listened in disbelieve to the shrill radio announcements that early morning on […]
COSCO [LOUIS DE CORDIER]
Cosco is one of those people just everybody likes: outgoing, sensitive, supportive, laughing a lot and straight forward to the bottom. That way he got himself caretaker-ships for not just one Cortijo (stand alone farm dwelling) in the Alpujarra Mountains of the Sierra Nevada (South Spain), to where he has moved with his wife about […]