Team

A passion for design: Degreed historian and political scientist Markus Majerus has been with Koelnmesse for more than 10 years. The communications pro sees leading trade fairs imm cologne and interzum as the focal point of his work as press officer. With his love of design and creative mindset, the 45 year-old plays an important role in staging some refreshing trade fair scenarios. Privately too, the family man (married, three children, two dogs) is an open kind of guy and only closes the hood of his convertible when he absolutely has to.

Geography graduate Julia Degner spent more than three years working as a sales and marketing assistant for an international automotive supplier before, after several foreign stays in Central and South America, she joined koelnmesse’s Food & Beverage division in July 2008. Since April 2009, the hobby photographer has been press assistant for the imm cologne and interzum. Julia Degner benefits from the same coordination skills she brings to her job in her free time as well, when she seeks composure and balance for the next day at work in a Tae Bo workout.

Does design need words? Purists would say no. But Frank A. Reinhardt of Cologne agency FAR_consulting takes a different view. He believes design needs stories just as much as songs need lyrics. Design is a form of communication that express itself not only in aesthetic statements but in verbal references as well – to the scene, to its public, to society. It is the discourse that spurs creative development and plays a mediating role. Today Reinhardt, a designer who migrated to marketing, writes for design magazines and devises PR projects, design competitions and exhibition concepts for industrial enterprises, trade fairs and associations, as well as developing the imm cologne’s Content Service for journalists. Ever in search of an interview, he has been known to sit in Arik Levy’s repository and Philippe Starck’s kitchen – or to catch Zaha Hadid in London just a few days before she sets off to face the hordes of journalists at the imm cologne.
www.far-consulting.de

Es geht darum, Inhalte richtig in Szene zu setzen: Als Mitarbeiter der Kölner Agentur FAR_consulting betreut Lars Mörs neben konzeptionellen und anderen Aufgaben den Internetauftritt des imm cologne Content-Service. Seit 1996 ist er im Bereich Public Relations tätig. Bevor er zu FAR_consulting wechselte, war er in einer Event-Agentur für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Veranstaltungsorganisation zuständig. Der gebürtige Kölner hat einen Abschluss in Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften der Universität Düsseldorf mit den Schwerpunkten Werbesprache und Unternehmenskommunikation.

It’s all about finding the best way to stage content and draw attention to it: Besides his conceptual work and other assignments, Lars Mörs of Cologne agency FAR_consulting is responsible for administrating the imm cologne Content Service website. Mörs has been working in Public Relations since 1996. Before joining FAR_consulting, he worked for an event agency where he was responsible for PR and organisation. A native of Cologne, Mörs holds a degree in Media and Communication Studies from Düsseldorf University; his studies focused on advertising language and corporate communications.

Life is a snapshot: Andreas Körner is a freelance photographer with studios in Berlin, Auenwald and Stuttgart. He has been capturing people, architecture, products and impressions of distant lands on film since 1999. He documents boardroom line-ups for numerous business journals. Even when time is short and production conditions unfavourable, his persistent professionalism means he always manages to capture the right moment.
www.a-koerner.de

Graphic designer Karsten Jipp works as an art director in a large corporate design agency. He lives and works in Berlin, where he discovered photography as an outlet for totally unencumbered creativity and soon attracted a large fan community with the snapshots and artistic scenographies he published on the photocase platform. His photos reveal the absurdity of the everyday and the poetry of little things; they symbolise joy and sadness, megalomania and vulnerability. But his pictures are always full of humour too – and never entirely without sympathy. The hallmark of his visual language: staging himself as a protagonist with (all too) human sensibilities. He slips into any role and doesn’t shrink from any manipulation to capture his surprisingly clear-sighted perspective of the world on camera. The staged-yet-spontaneous quality of his pictures, however, is entirely due to his working technique: the automatic shutter release gives him just ten seconds to put himself in the picture.
www.kallejipp.de

“You can always make more of a word”: freelance translator Alison Du Bovis enjoys the challenges of a text. The English-born linguist has good reason to get the utmost out of the original material. After graduating in French and German, it wasn’t her passion for French literature that prompted her choice of career but her abhorrence of poor translations. Further proof that the quest for quality in the details always leads to a good overall result.
www.dubovis.de