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AU THORS & ARTISTS
Behind almost every story, there is a subtext.
Here, some thoughts and experiences of the contributing
authors and artists to this annual report.
Authors
Artists
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Bernd Girrbach
Author
“Zooing” or more
“zooioong”? Heidelberg-
based author and director
Bernd Girrbach talking shop
with Food Hunter Mark
Brownstein in a café on the
banks of the Mekong River.
What do the song-dried river
grass cakes sing as they are
dipped into hot oil? Girrbach
introduced the food hunter
to German television sta-
tions SWR and Arte, and has
accompanied this Indiana
Jones of Asian cuisine on
many an adventure. In Laos,
when he threw the term
“zooioong” into the pot, his
table companion turned to
him and asked, “What are
you? An ornithologist per-
chance?” p. 16
Heiner Gembris
Author
The Paderborn professor has
been interested in music and
its impact for a long time.
However, when a fragrance
manufacturer described the
similarities between perfume
and music, he began a jour-
ney into the world of aroma,
culminating in an event
during which a perfumer
composed a fragrance for
the audience, while two
musicians improvised music
to it. At home, the Director of
the Institute for Research on
Musical Ability (IBFM) enjoys
the piano works of Chopin
that once caused a sensation
in the perfumed salons of
19th-century Paris. Currently,
his favorite perfume is
Baldessarini Del Mar. p. 8
Hedi Lusser
Illustrator
Having grown up in southern
Styria, Austria, the Munich-
based illustrator is well
versed in how to savor a
good wine. Something she
didn’t know, however, is that
there is more to drinking a
bottle of wine than listening
to an oompah band or the
papery rattle of a Klapotetz
wine wheel in the back-
ground – nor did she realize
the power sound had to
affect the bouquet of her
wine. But once she did, the
publisher of Unser Magazin
and director of photography
for Missy Magazine conduct-
ed her own experiment:
Cabernet Sauvignon to White
Stripes. Delicious! p. 22
Jan von Holleben
Photographer
No sooner had the Berlin-
based photographer begun
to shoot his photo essay on
the sensuality of products
did the first obstacles and
challenges appear. How can
you make an object appear
more lifelike? The award-
winning artist, whose photo-
graphs have been published
in ZEITmagazin, NEON and
GEO, had to resort to tricks
gained from analog repro-
duction technology – photo-
graphing objects again and
again, superimposing them
over the last shot. p. 32
Oliver Hafke Ahmad
Author
Our author is a saxophonist
himself and leads the Berlin
band The Jazz Nomads.
Hafke Ahmad had already
met Germany’s most famous
film composer and saxophon-
ist, Klaus Doldinger, before
this interview, but had never
visited the composer of the
Tatort theme song and the
soundtrack for Das Boot at
his home just outside Munich.
As Doldinger and Hafke
Ahmad discussed everything
from mixers, microphones,
music awards and old audio-
tapes, to the saxophone –
and the seven senses – an air
of intimacy was created. p. 10
Hilmar Poganatz
Author
When he started his
research for this article,
Poganatz was immediately
overcome with despair. How
can one “taste sounds” and
“smell tones”? The search
led our writer and editorial
concept developer into the
world of multisensory
perception. Poganatz
learned how closely hearing
and smell are linked to the
palate when he wrote this
portrait of British celebrity
chef Heston Blumenthal.
Since then, he’s had a
craving for oysters, which
supposedly taste
better when served to
the sound of waves. p. 38