Gunnar Fehlau

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Gunnar Fehlau (* 1973 in Dortmund ) is a German specialist journalist and author on the subject of " bicycles ".

Life

Gunnar Fehlau was already working as a teenager at the end of the 1980s in Klaus Schröder's bike shop in Bergisch Gladbach , a shop of the Association of Self-Managed Bicycle Companies (VSF) . After graduating from high school, he studied political science , journalism and psychology in Leipzig and Brighton , completing a Magister Artium (MA) . Before and during his studies he worked as a freelancer for German-language and international publications and has been working in professional journalism on the subject of "bicycles" since 1990. He has written for magazines, newspapers and publishers, including Bild , Tour , Die Zeit , PM Magazin and aktiv cycling .

After graduating, he was head of the corporate communication and marketing department at bicycle manufacturer riese und müller GmbH for several years and from 2003 to 2006 he was head of marketing and communication at VSF. For design and implementation of the commemorative 20 Reasons against the VSF he was awarded the 2006 red dot design award , the iF communication design award and the Best of Corporate Publishing Award (BCP) Award.

Since 2003 Fehlau has been running the press service bicycle (pd-f) that he founded. With his press service he is a member of the VSF. The branch information service of 30 clubs, institutions, companies and organizations has set itself the task of making the good bicycle and its use more public. For the relaunch and editorial support of the VSF customer magazine abfahren , he founded the velonauten UG in 2009 as a spin-off of the pressedienstes-fahrrad. Since 2010 he has been editor-in-chief of fahrstil magazine .

Gunnar Fehlau is also the author of specialist bicycle books, most of which he published by Delius Klasing Verlag . In addition to general advice on cycling and cycle tourism , he wrote monographs on recumbent , folding and e-bikes . He also appears regularly as a speaker at specialist congresses and conferences. As a lecturer and speaker with a focus on communication strategies and organization as well as agenda setting and public relations work for small companies, he has worked at the journalism center for business and administration, the communications association, Siemens and the journalist center Haus Busch .

An active cyclist himself, Fehlau has ridden numerous cycling marathons . He is a ten-time “finisher” of the Norwegian Styrkeprøven (as of 2004) and in 2007 completed the 1229 kilometers of the Paris – Brest – Paris route almost non-stop . In 2009 he launched a “Grenzsteintrophy”, for which he covered almost 1300 kilometers on the mountain bike along the Kolonnenweg along the former inner-German border .

He is also involved in product development - for example as a co-inventor of the Aeroproject recumbent bike , which was created in 1989 in collaboration with Klaus Schröder and Manfred Harig in Bergisch Gladbach and was assembled and sold in the local bike shop - and is involved in specialist juries, including those of the Eurobike Design Award 2009 .

Gunnar Fehlau is the father of two sons. He lives and works in Göttingen .

Fonts

  • The recumbent bike . Moby Dick, Kiel 1993 (3rd, completely revised edition in the Moby Dick edition by Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-89595-025-4 ).
  • The modular bike . Foldable bicycles . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1997 ( Moby Dick Edition , ISBN 3-89595-113-7 ).
  • 1000 tips for bikers : component selection - maintenance - troubleshooting . Moby Dick, Kiel 2000 (Delius Klasing - Edition Moby Dick , ISBN 3-89595-156-0 ).
  • 1000 tips for cycling holidays : equipment, luggage, breakdown assistance . Moby Dick, Kiel 2003 (Delius Klasing - Edition Moby Dick , ISBN 3-89595-181-1 ).
  • together with Peter Barzel: The E-Bike . The new bicycles with electric drive assistance. Types - models - components . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-7688-5282-1 ).
  • together with Caspar Gebel: The Family Bicycle Book. From child trailers to youth bikes . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-7688-5318-7 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VSF hires Gunnar Fehlau. RadMarkt-News from August 11, 2003, accessed on February 13, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Vita at iF Design; Retrieved August 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Brief portrait (status 2002) at www.wirtschaftinbewegung.com; Retrieved February 11, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Germany: VSF starts 2010 with a relaunch of its customer magazine "abfahren" , VSF press release from December 2, 2009 in the bicycle portal, internet platform www.nationaler-radverkehrsplan.de on the national bicycle traffic plan , created on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban development ; Retrieved February 11, 2011
  5. ↑ a b Gunnar Fehlau as a consultant at the Journalist Center for Economics and Administration. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 11, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.journalistenzentrum-jwv.de
  6. ↑ BCP Prize Winner 2006. (PDF) Retrieved on February 11, 2011 .
  7. ↑ cf. also anniversary: ​​20 years of journalism Gunnar Fehlau. press service bike from September 10, 2010, archived from the original on September 23, 2010 ; Retrieved February 11, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Imprint. In: fahrstil-magazin.de. Retrieved July 27, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b Fehlau as member of the jury of the 2nd folding recumbent bike competition; Status: 2004 ; Retrieved February 11, 2011
  10. ↑ a b Jörn Barke: Unter uns: Bike tour on the former border . In: Göttinger Tageblatt ( online version from December 1, 2009 ); Retrieved February 11, 2011
  11. ↑ Klaus Schröder on the history of his company Velvet Systems. Archived from the original on July 26, 2012 ; Retrieved February 11, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Please no training wheels! An expert explains what is important when cycling with small children . Interview with Gunnar Fehlau at tz-online from May 26, 2011 ; Retrieved August 14, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Fehlau, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund