Johannes Klaus (writer)

Johannes Klaus (born February 28, 1981 in Weinheim ) is a German publisher , travel blogger , graphic designer and editor of several websites and books for narrative travel literature .

Life

In 2000 he graduated from high school . He became a graphic designer and lived in Mannheim from 2004 to 2014 . He has lived in Berlin since 2014 . In 2011 he received the Grimme Online Award (category: culture and entertainment) for his travel blog reisedepesche.de, founded in 2010 . There he reports on his travels a. a. a fourteen month trip around the world . He is also a founding member of the travel blogger collective , a network of seven leading travel bloggers from German-speaking countries.

In 2013 he founded the leading German-language travel blog portal reisedepeschen.de , on which 15 to 20 other selected authors publish their travel reports and videos. The portal focuses on well-told stories and experiences from traveling.

In November 2014 he founded the travel storytelling portal The Travel Episodes , on which so-called scrollytelling reports by selected travel authors are published. These reports use full-screen video clips , photos and animations to tell personal travel stories in addition to the texts.

In 2016 and 2017 Johannes Klaus published three books with Malik National Geographic ( Piper Verlag ): "The Travel Episodes: A story of wanderlust and freedom", "The Travel Episodes: New stories for adventurers, adventurers and daydreamers", Malik National Geographic and " The Travel Episodes: New Travel Stories from Every End of the World ", which collected the best stories from various authors on its portals. The fourth volume "The Travel Episodes: About the pleasure of traveling alone" was announced for 2019.

In 2018 Johannes Klaus founded the Reiseepeschen Verlag together with Marianna Hillmer in order to set new impulses in the travel book market. Travel guides, illustrated books and reading books are published, which are intended to encourage conscious and sustainable travel, and which are designed and manufactured to a particularly high quality. In June 2018, the publisher was selected from 456 submissions for the Frankfurt Book Fair wildcard.

Awards

• Grimme Online Award 2011 (Category: Culture and Entertainment)

Web links

• Reiseepeschen Verlag reisedepeschen.de/verlag
• Travel blog portal reisedepeschen.de
• Travel blog portal travelepisodes.com
• Travel blog portal travelepisodes.com , English version
• / Marcopolo.de Grimme Prize Winner Launches New Travel Blogger Portal , February 21, 2013
• Travel blogger Johannes Klaus: This piece of earth is too perfect , SPON , September 12, 2013
• Reiseepeschen.de: Grimme Prize Winner Launches New Travel Blog Portal , SPON , February 20, 2013
• Jörn Meyn: What distinguishes the travel blog from the travel guide , in: Die Welt , March 13, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sarah Weik: Getting lost is part of it , in: Mannheimer Morgen , May 28, 2013.
2. ↑ Johannes Klaus: Adventure without Risk ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2013 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. (PDF; 636 kB), Grimme Institute 
3. ↑ "grimme": Everything about the prices ( memento of the original from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Grimme Institute 
4. ↑ Johannes Klaus - Reiseepeschen ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Travel blogger collective 
5. ↑ Overview of authors , Reiseepeschen.de
6. ↑ Travel videos , Reiseepeschen.de
7. ↑ Episode overview, travelepisodes.com
8. ↑ Summary of Authors , travelepisodes.com
9. ^ Johannes Klaus: The Travel Episodes: Stories of wanderlust and freedom . tape 1 . Piper, 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-40592-8 .
10. ↑ Johannes Klaus: The Travel Episodes: New stories for adventurers, adventurers and daydreamers . tape 2 . Piper, 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-40606-2 .
11. ↑ Johannes Klaus: The Travel Episodes: New travel stories from all ends of the world . tape 3 . Piper, 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-40487-7 .
12. ^ The Travel Episodes. Retrieved December 22, 2018 . 
13. ^ Reiseepeschen Verlag: Reiseepeschen Verlag: Travel books for explorers - Crowdfunding project - startnext.com. Retrieved March 1, 2018 . 
14. ↑ We found a publishing house: Plea for the nicer travel book . In: travel dispatches . February 28, 2018 ( reisedepeschen.de [accessed March 1, 2018]).
15. ^ Eva Lehnen: 34 countries, 30 months, 55,000 kilometers: From Munich to Vladivostok - and back . In: Spiegel Online . October 25, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 22, 2018]).
16. ↑ Frankfurter Buchmesse Wildcard: Winners are Reiseepeschen Verlag and UNSILO. Retrieved December 22, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Grimme Online Award 2011, statement of the jury ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.