Daniel Hopkins

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Daniel Hopkins (born November 14, 1977 in Osnabrück ) is a German journalist , editor , public relations manager. For his Extreme Couch Surfing project , Hopkins circled the world in 80 days, visiting 34 cities in 21 countries on six continents and sleeping with a different person on a different couch every night.

Life

After graduating from high school in social affairs at BBS Natruper Straße in Osnabrück, Hopkins completed an editorial traineeship at the Oldenburgische Volkszeitung between August 2005 and February 2007. Due to his extensive previous knowledge of journalism, Hopkins was able to shorten his training period by half a year to 18 months. Before training as an editor, he worked as a freelance journalist between 2000 and 2005. In the course of his freelance work in 2004 and 2005 he also reported from Iraq as a crisis reporter .

After his traineeship, he worked as a public relations manager and international press spokesman for Tetra GmbH in the aquarium & garden pond sector for over two years . In August 2009 he quit his job in favor of the implementation of his Extreme-Couch-Hopping project , in which he presented the topic of couch surfing and its intention to the general public - through reporting in his own blog, articles in daily newspapers and magazines and interviews with various media institutions wanted to convey.

Since his return from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), where he worked for eight months as a freelance PR consultant, he has lived in his hometown Osnabrück and has worked as an international public relations manager and editor for various companies.

In October 2011, Hopkins carried out the project "Around the World in 80 Hours" with his companions Alex Kahl and Oliver Regehr. The three men drove through Germany by car for 80 hours, visiting 21 people with 18 different migration backgrounds and interviewing them about their integration in Germany. You published the results on Facebook and your blog.

Daniel Hopkins is a member and active in the German Association of Journalists (DJV) as well as a founding member of the non-profit association “We start equal!” Under the patronage of the actor and Tatort actor Klaus J. Behrendt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extreme Couch Hopping - the blog , The blog for the project "Extreme Couch Hopping
  2. ↑ Come on my sofa . Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , April 2, 2011
  3. ↑ From couch to couch around the world in 80 days , Die Welt , October 4, 2009.
  4. ↑ Around the world in Germany in 80 hours - the blog ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The blog for the project "80 hours trip around the world" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.80-stunden-weltreise.de
  5. ↑ Around the world in 80 hours , [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]], October 18, 2011: World tour across Germany
  6. ^ Across Germany with Facebook and Twitter , Focus , October 18, 2011
  7. ↑ To Germany and back , Die Welt Kompakt from November 30, 2011.
  8. ↑ http://www.wir-starten-gleich.de
personal data
SURNAME Hopkins, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor, public relations manager and world traveler
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück