Exciting entertainment and informative discussions: the Talk Sofa of h+h cologne 2021

As an experienced TV presenter, Stefan Pinnow can look back on a varied career and almost three decades of media experience in public broadcasting as well as in private television. On the Talksofa at h+h cologne 2021, he especially got into conversation with the guests and trade visitors and promoted an inspiring and informative exchange.

Susi Strickliesel / Susanne Ortner is “Germany's coolest knitter” according to a major women's magazine. She has been running her own knitwear label since 2012 and not only makes celebrities happy with her creations. Susi loves social media (@susistrickliesel) and, as an influencer, fills her popular profiles every day with knitting / DIY, musicals / live entertainment, lifestyle and takes her followers with her into her life as a musical caster. In the area of knitting, she cooperates with high-quality partners such as Vogue Knitting. Through various portraits and interviews both in the print media (including picture of the woman) and on TV (including WDR), she is also known to the general public outside the DIY niche. Her book "Knit happens" has been available in bookshops since 2019, with lots of tips, including for social media.

Yvonne Willicks is a consumer journalist and TV hostess, but also a passionate knitter. Especially cloths and shawls are her passion. In the process, she is always enthusiastic about processing new yarns into high quality special designs. Sensational and quite accessible – in her current book she presents her entirely personal models. Whether in the web or on TV, her many social media followers, as well as viewers of WDR Servicezeit wait with anticipation for her latest creations.

Thorsten Duit has been knitting since his earliest childhood and can't imagine a life without wool. He already learned knitting from his grandma at the age of six, who herself knitted baby clothes on commission. He is silent about his first own creation, but his passion for yarn and needle grew over the course of his life. Relaxation is his priority. The regular movement of the needles slows things right down. He also finds it utterly satisfying to watch how a wearable item of clothing grows from a string of wool.

Michaela Kranz and Bettina Grüninger are the two creative minds behind Pfeffer & Salz. Their areas of expertise include visual marketing, shop layout, shop design, merchandise layout, merchandise purchasing, product range planning and communication. The two lecturers from the LDT Nagold (Academy for Fashion Management) have already trained more than 300 specialist retailers in the handicrafts sector as part of the seminar series of the Initiative Handarbeit. They have very successfully accompanied a store in Regensburg in its new planning and implementation. This project was crowned with the HDE's "Store of the Year" in 2020.

Together with the Initiative Handarbeit, a new idea was developed and a free facelift for a specialised shop was tendered. The main prize went to Juliane Bohrer, the owner of JuLaine in Bad Bergzabern.