Andreas Pavel

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Andreas Pavel (* 1945 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German-Brazilian philosopher and inventor .

Life

At the age of six, the son of the industrialist Herbert Pavel (1905–1986) and an artist emigrated to Brazil with his parents and brother Klaus Pavel , where his father was to restructure the family company Matarazzo Industries in São Paulo from 1950 . Pavel grew up in São Paulo and studied philosophy and sociology in Berlin in the mid-1960s . He then returned to Brazil, where he took up a job in the teaching department (Divisão de Ensino) at the television station TV Cultura . A trip to Europe in 1972 triggered the first thoughts on developing a portable hi-fi system. At the 1976 Hi-Fi trade fair in Düsseldorf , he presented his plans to representatives from Philips and Sony without them showing any interest.

Pavel first moved from São Paulo to New York in 1974 and then to Milan in 1976, and in March 1977 applied for a patent in Italy for his concept of a pocket stereo system with headphones . In 1978 the application was made at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich as well as in the USA , Great Britain and Japan . In 1979 Sony launched the Walkman , which made it a global success. When Pavel tried in 1980 to have his invention manufactured in Italy under the name Stereobelt , he was no longer able to establish himself. Since Sony refused to cooperate with him, he initially obtained license fees of 150,000 DM in 1986 for models that had been sold in Germany in the early 1980s.

Pavel ruined himself financially in a copyright lawsuit that he filed against the company in England in 1989. In 1996 the case was dropped and Pavel was obliged to pay the court costs of US $ 3 million. It was only after Pavel threatened to pursue further lawsuits in other countries that Sony relented in 2003 after the death of long-time Sony boss Akio Morita and transferred an amount to him in 2004 that was agreed not to disclose. At that time, Pavel was working in Milan as a cultural manager . He later supported the career of the Brazilian flautist Altamiro Carrilho and worked on the collection of all music recordings ever published in Brazil.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow: Personal Stereo . Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5013-2282-2 ( google.de [accessed January 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Veja e leia , issues 35–47, 1969 (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 22/1993 , accessed on October 3, 2013
  4. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 23/2004 , accessed on October 3, 2013
  5. ^ New York Times, December 17, 2005 , accessed October 3, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pavel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian philosopher and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel