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The television presenter Stefan Pinnow came to his profession on an unusual path. In 1989 he took part as a candidate in Jürgen von der Lippes Show "Geld oder Liebe". An ARD producer asked him if he could imagine acting as co-host of a family show. So Stefan Pinnow joined the "Disney Club", which was later replaced by the "Tigerenten- Club". There he also got to know his future wife Judith Halverscheid, who led him through the children's show together. In 1995 Stefan Pinnow changed to the private channel SAT 1, where he hosted the news magazine "17:30 Live". This was followed by an engagement with PRO 7 (taff). In 2009 he returned to WDR with the programmes "daheim + unterwegs", "Hier und heute" and "Wunderschön!" Stefan Pinnow is also a magician. He belongs to the Magic Circle in Berlin. He lives in Berlin with his wife Judith, two daughters and one son.

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Dr. Hartmut Schneider

When: 20.03.2020 | 10:30-11:00 a.m.

Gabriela Kaiser studied textile technology with a focus on design and then worked for 6 years as a knitting designer for women's fashion in industry. In 2002 she started her own business as a trend agency and has since scouted trends in the entire lifestyle sector. She advises industry and trade on trends and regularly writes trend articles for trade journals.

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Gabriela Kaiser

When: 20.03.2020 | 11:15-11:45 a.m.

Sonja Kröll is a graphic recorder, illustrator and visual language trainer. She puts thoughts on paper for everyone to see and makes complex topics understandable for everyone. She founded her business 5 years ago alongside her full-time job. This year she has changed to 100% self-employment. Her mission is to make sure that the visual language can be actively used again and thus leads to better cooperation, more focus and clarity and especially more fun and creativity.

Kati Müller, 46 years old, married, 2 children Project manager since 2005, since 2011 foundation of the "Malamü" label since 2012 sewing courses since 2018 Workshops on the topic of self-organisation, DIY.

Kati Müller, 46 years old, married, 2 children
Project manager since 2005,
since 2011 foundation of the "Malamü" label
since 2012 sewing courses
since 2018 Workshops on the topic of self-organisation, DIY.

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Sonja Kröll and Kati Müller

When: 20.03.2020 | 12:00-12:30 p.m.

Gabriela Kaiser studied textile technology with a focus on design and then worked for 6 years as a knitting designer for women's fashion in industry. In 2002 she started her own business as a trend agency and has since scouted trends in the entire lifestyle sector. She advises industry and trade on trends and regularly writes trend articles for trade journals.

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Gabriela Kaiser

When: 20.03.2020 | 12:45-1:15 p.m.

When Daniele Gencalp opened a sewing café in Hanover with a business partner in 2009, she had no idea that this would be the beginning of a success story. She quickly noticed that the sale of fabrics could open up financial potential. Together with her husband, she founded the Lillestoff company.

Today, the company is Europe's largest manufacturer of certified organic children's fabrics. Lillestoff supplies specialist retailers in more than 21 countries.

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Jutta Nowak

When: 20.03.2020 | 1:30-2:00 p.m.

After completing her studies in Romance Languages and Psychology in Germany and France as well as leading positions in renowned Hamburg PR agencies and in an international fashion and lifestyle group, the PR manager, editor and trainer Katrin Speer (M.A.) went into her own business with speer - Brands and Media, Agency for Sustainable Communication. "Sustainability" is her specialty. For around 20 years she has been advising German and international companies, institutions and associations on the design of their corporate and product communications as well as marketing and supporting them in their implementation. In individual coaching sessions and training sessions, she trains managing directors and marketing managers in all aspects of communication and self-marketing. As a freelance editor, she designs and produces corporate publications and writes for sustainable magazines, among others. She has profound knowledge in the field of sustainable lifestyle markets, especially in the sectors hobby & needlework, fashion & cosmetics, home & household textiles, living & design, art & culture, travel & tourism.

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Katrin Speer, speer - Marken und Medien

When: 20.03.2020 | 2:30-3:00 p.m.

After completing her studies in Romance Languages and Psychology in Germany and France as well as leading positions in renowned Hamburg PR agencies and in an international fashion and lifestyle group, the PR manager, editor and trainer Katrin Speer (M.A.) went into her own business with speer - Brands and Media, Agency for Sustainable Communication. "Sustainability" is her specialty. For around 20 years she has been advising German and international companies, institutions and associations on the design of their corporate and product communications as well as marketing and supporting them in their implementation. In individual coaching sessions and training sessions, she trains managing directors and marketing managers in all aspects of communication and self-marketing. As a freelance editor, she designs and produces corporate publications and writes for sustainable magazines, among others. She has profound knowledge in the field of sustainable lifestyle markets, especially in the sectors hobby & needlework, fashion & cosmetics, home & household textiles, living & design, art & culture, travel & tourism.

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Katrin Speer, speer - Marken und Medien

When: 20.03.2020 | 3:30-4:00 p.m.

"Totally different but still in perfect harmony"

Two creative minds behind "Pfeffer&Salz"

Pfeffer: Bettina Grüninger has been at home in the fashion industry for over 20 years and uses her days off to study fashion magazines at the HotSpot Cafés in Paris. As a lecturer at LDT Nagold (Academy for Fashion Management) and recruiter for international fashion companies, she passionately passes on her know-how.

Salz: Michaela Kranz is a store designer and has already worked as a trend scout for the textile industry. She combines her passion for fashion and interior design with a future-oriented perspective on good style and transforms her customers' surface into emotional experiences.

With the authentic kind of Pfeffer&Salz, the motivate and inspire their customers and train them individually in fashion, lifestyle, interior, staff, customer loyalty and enthusiasm.

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Bettina Grüninger and Michaela Kranz

When: 20.03.2020 | 4:15-4:45 p.m.

Thorsten Duit has been knitting since childhood and cannot imagine a life without wool. He learned knitting at the age of six from his grandmother, who knitted baby clothes on commission. Whether his first work was then also a few pink wool socks, he has not yet told us.

For him knitting is relaxation. He finds the regular needle movement decelerated and watching a thread turn into a wearable piece of clothing absolutely satisfying.

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Stiebner Verlag, Thorsten Duit von just- duit

When: 21.03.2020 | 10:30-11:00 a.m.

Sven Deutschländer is managing director of the Berlin agency dskom. Since 2002, he has supported companies in building and expanding their online visibility. As SEO professional Berlin it places consultation and seminars to the most important on-line marketing topics into the focus. Beside its SEO professional academy its five stars on-line marketing - Events are to it very because of the heart.

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Sven Deutschländer

When: 21.03.2020 | 11:15-11:45 a.m.

Designer Anke Müller is known for beautiful fabrics and unusual model ideas with very special details, but also designs beautiful papers and motifs for her label "Cherry Picking". At the latest since her jury work in the show "Clever threaded" she stands for creative design with the sewing machine. She gets inspiration for this at international trade fairs and translates the coming trends into current cuts and models.

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Frechverlag, Anke Müller

When: 21.03.2020 | 12:00-12:30 p.m.

Susi Strickliesel/Susanne Ortner is "Germany's coolest knitter" according to a major women's magazine. Since 2012 she has been running her own knitting label and not only makes celebrities happy with her creations. Susi loves social media (@susistrickickliesel) and as an influencer she fills her popular profiles daily with knitting/DIY, musicals/live entertainment, lifestyle and takes her followers into her life as a musicalcaster. In the field of knitting she cooperates with high-quality partners like Vogue Knitting. Through various portraits and interviews in the print media (e.g. Bild der Frau) as well as on TV (e.g. WDR) she is also known to a wide audience outside the DIY niche. Since 2019 her book "Knit happens" is available in bookshops, with many tips, also for social media.

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Susi Strickliesel

When: 21.03.2020 | 12:45-1:15 p.m.

Born and raised in Munich, Manuela P. Gaßner spent most of her childhood and youth in the garden of her grandfather among flowers, vegetables and fruit trees. From this, her love of nature developed and she studied horticulture in Freising-Weihenstephan, Venezuela and Budapest and earned her doctorate in the field of agricultural sciences. In addition to gardening, creativity is another passion that is indispensable in life. Using a variety of materials such as fabric, wool, but also wood and stone she gives free rein to her wealth of ideas. Since 2015, the family tries to get along with as little garbage as possible. Manuela P. Gaßner works freelance as a lecturer, speaker and author. On her blog www.einfachzerowasteleben.de she gives tips on waste prevention and shows her urban self-catering garden on Instagram.

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Frechverlag, Dr. Manuela Gaßner

When: 21.03.2020 | 1:30-2:00 p.m.

Jule Kebelmann, the founder of Hey Mama Wolf, studied textile design in Berlin. Since then, she has worked independently as a knitwear designer, dyeing regional wool with herbal colors. Since 2008 she gives knitting and crochet courses. The search for a yarn produced ecologically in Europe led them to the idea of producing one themselves. Jule lives with her husband and two children in the Prignitz..

Patrick Gruban and his wife Rosmary Stegmann are behind Rosy Green Wool. In search of soft sheep's wool she came across mulesing, a painful process in the production of merino wool. That made her realize that she could not possibly continue with such wool. That was in 2012 and meanwhile the idea has become the common vocation with her husband Patrick. The two only use wool from lucky sheep from certified organic animal husbandry. This is spun and dyed to exact designs in small quantities in factories in England and Portugal. 100% independently certified according to GOTS - Bio and Fair.

Fourfold mother, author, philosopher, no eco-mum and no environmental pope. Caro is just happy to be outside; in the garden, in the forest, on the mountain and would like to share this passion with their children and others, and to pass on a bit of knowledge about nature, but above all the joy of it.

Britta Kremke grew up almost from birth with wool. Her mother once ran a specialty shop for wool and knitwear in Hamburg. She herself was the youngest owner of such a specialty store, which she opened at Lüneburg at the age of just 21. Judge wool quality? No problem for her. Knit? Can she of course. Nevertheless, it took some time before she ventured together with her husband, the advertising specialist Carsten Kremke, in 2010, the starting gun for a wool-online trade. On flattering yarn find quality-conscious hobby knitters and retailers, what your heart beats. The philosophy? It only comes into the assortment, which Britta Kremke herself would like to entangle, from eco-wool and finest merino wool to hand-dyed yarn from fair trade projects.

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Frechverlag, Britta Kremke (BC Garne), Jule Kebelmann (Hey Mama Wolf), Rosy Stegmann and Patrick Gruban (Rosy Green Wool), Caro Hosmann (Naturkinder)

When: 21.03.2020 | 2:30-3:00 p.m.

Trained as a tailor, master craftswoman at the age of 21, own fashion studio and fashion label in Hamburg until 1994, Pattern development for Otto-Group/Hamburg, 1995 first sewing video "The Blazer", since 2009 on YouTube 770 000 clicks, since 1999 freelance technical editor for the OZ-Verlag/Rheinfelden, Since 2008 editor-in-chief for the pattern booklet "Nähsmode für Plus-Size", since 2010 video productions for Prym Consumer/Stolberg, since 2012 book author Christophorus Verlag now Christian Verlag until today 13 books for hobby tailors, since 2015 Video sewing courses for the internet platform "Makerist"/Berlin.

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Mia Führer

When: 21.03.2020 | 3:30-4:00 p.m.

"Totally different but still in perfect harmony"

Two creative minds behind "Pfeffer&Salz"

Pfeffer: Bettina Grüninger has been at home in the fashion industry for over 20 years and uses her days off to study fashion magazines at the HotSpot Cafés in Paris. As a lecturer at LDT Nagold (Academy for Fashion Management) and recruiter for international fashion companies, she passionately passes on her know-how.

Salz: Michaela Kranz is a store designer and has already worked as a trend scout for the textile industry. She combines her passion for fashion and interior design with a future-oriented perspective on good style and transforms her customers' surface into emotional experiences.

With the authentic kind of Pfeffer&Salz, the motivate and inspire their customers and train them individually in fashion, lifestyle, interior, staff, customer loyalty and enthusiasm.

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Bettina Grüninger and Michaela Kranz

When: 21.03.2020 | 4:15-4:45 p.m.

Trained as a tailor, master craftswoman at the age of 21, own fashion studio and fashion label in Hamburg until 1994, Pattern development for Otto-Group/Hamburg, 1995 first sewing video "The Blazer", since 2009 on YouTube 770 000 clicks, since 1999 freelance technical editor for the OZ-Verlag/Rheinfelden, Since 2008 editor-in-chief for the pattern booklet "Nähsmode für Plus-Size", since 2010 video productions for Prym Consumer/Stolberg, since 2012 book author Christophorus Verlag now Christian Verlag until today 13 books for hobby tailors, since 2015 Video sewing courses for the internet platform "Makerist"/Berlin.

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Mia Führer

When: 22.03.2020 | 10:00-10:30 a.m.

For years Janine Binder has been blogging on www.jetztkochtsie.com and Stefanie Gutzat on www.feierabendfrickeleien.com about knitting, sewing, crocheting and everything that makes the handicraft heart beat faster. Since 2017, both have been running the 14-day podcast www.frickelcast.com together, and delight thousands of listeners on Itunes, Spotify and many other podcatchers in the German-speaking world of handwork.

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Frickelcast

When: 22.03.2020 | 10:45-11:15 a.m.

Hamburger, studied law in Munich (Jura) and Fontainebleau (MBA) - then management consultant, various management functions in a group of companies and self-employed entrepreneur for 15 years. Married, many children, living in Cologne.

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Manuel von Möller

When: 22.03.2020 | 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Mikaela Ioannou studied media sciences and German language and literature and has been working with and for social networks since 2007.

As a social media expert, she specializes in Facebook and Instagram and advises various companies, retailers and online shops. She supports her clients to find their target groups, to develop the right strategy and to make the company more popular and successful and ultimately to increase sales.

She is a Facebook Ambassador and member of the Facebook SME Advisory Board and knows how buying behaviour through good content has a positive effect on customers.

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Mikaela Ioannou

When: 22.03.2020 | 12:45-1:15 p.m.

I studied Communication Design at the FH Aachen. I founded my advertising agency during my studies. After about 3 years of successful agency work, I reflected on what I was doing and learned about two things. 1. it's always about three questions: How do we win new clients? How do we keep customers? And what service do our customers expect? 2. I love outstanding service. My goal is to develop concepts and processes that make customers feel understood. I repositioned myself, worked out a consulting offer on the three questions and today work successfully for medium-sized companies across all industries.

In addition to this field of activity, I trained as a New Work Manager (IHK) in 2018. Because: Developing new processes, services and business models from customer requirements also means understanding the organization and the team as a unit and adapting them to the new requirements of the business world.

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Sarah Steiner

When: 22.03.2020 | 1:30-2:00 p.m.

After an apprenticeship in dressmaking, various internships and a design course with a focus on knitwear in Reutlingen, she joined Coats (later MEZ GmbH) in 1996 to work in product and model development for the brands Schachenmayr & Regia on the topic "Yarn & Mesh". In 1999, the first handicraft book was published by Ravensburger Verlag as a freelance author. To this day, books on a wide variety of knitting and crochet themes are regularly published by & with Frechverlag. In the programme "ARD Buffet" and on SWR television she has been regularly live in front of the camera since 2011 and gives tips & ideas in the field of knitting & crocheting.

Since the end of 2017 she has joined the creative team of LANA GROSSA GmbH, in December 2019 the book "Mein ARD Buffet Strickbuch" will be published. Tanja Steinbach, born & raised in beautiful Tübingen, has been living with her husband and their twins in the Rhein Main area since 2007.

Rike is founder and designer at rosa p., runs her website (www.rosape.de), creates patterns and knits and is an author of handicrafts books. She has published numerous handicraft books on sewing, knitting and crocheting in recent years. The reduced, stylistically confident designs of her "pink p. Capsule Wardrobe" are stylistically confident, reserved and timeless and can always be combined with each other. Rike lives with her husband, her two dogs and her cat in the countryside outside Freiburg. She is mother of 5 adult children and grandmother of three grandchildren.

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Tanja Steinbach und Rike Pachollek vom Label Rosa P.

When: 22.03.2020 | 2:30-3:00 p.m.

Markus Hurley is working as a psychologist until 2017, with the clear goal of opening a wool business for my 50th birthday. He attended a business start-up seminar and started to set up the business "Lord of knitting wool for beautiful unique items" (opening May 2018)

He visited his first H & H trade fair in March 2018 to buy goods and establish contacts with manufacturers.

After more than a year and a half, his selection of yarns is even more special than at the beginning. He works with several small producers, sustainable production and certified qualities are very important to me. His brands include Pascuali filati naturali, BC yarns, Erika Knight, Westyorkshire Spinners, Laines du Nord, Ferner and Urth Yarns. Especially for my business Mr. von Strick gets hand-dyed by Claudia Weyrich (Tausendschön).

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Markus Hurley

When: 22.03.2020 | 3:30-4:00 p.m.