Julien beers

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Julien Kurt Biere (* 1949 ) is a German media producer , author and communications consultant.

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After graduating from high school, Biere lived in England, where he worked in the music industry (Studio London by Polydor Records ) and as a drummer in the studio band "Nexus". In 1970 he moved to Munich, where, while studying, he wrote word-music programs for the Pop Sunday editorial team at Bayerischer Rundfunk and trained in the development of audio texts and audio production. In 1971 he joined the Third World solidarity movement, where he brought his knowledge of sound and image design and in 1972 the first developmental slide show (slide-AV) produced.

At the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he studied sociology with Horst Holzer , as well as psychology, economics and geography. In 1976 he received a degree in sociology. In 1983 he received his doctorate. rer. soc. at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen with Reimer Gronemeyer . He researched basic audiovisual media and development awareness raising with reference to Alexander Kluge's realistic method , Paulo Freire's liberation pedagogy and his concept of Conscientização .

In 1972 he founded the “AVZ Basismedien - Center for Audiovisual Public Relations, acc. e. V. “, u. a. with the photographer Lothar Schiffler, the psychologist Luise Lehmann and Udo Pollmer , from which the "AV Academy for Media Education Research and Practice, Munich - Bonn" emerged. With the AV Academy, Julien Biere mainly produced development and peace education AV media for youth and adult education. Biere developed an advanced training model that promoted media competence, which was used in the 1970s and 80s in the training and supervision of German and Austrian development workers, the "workshop seminars for self-production of AV media".

In 1985 he founded the Münchner Tonbildtage , which by 1993 developed as Munich MultiMedia into the European festival for slide AV and multivision . In addition to teaching at universities in Hamburg, Furtwangen, Munich and Salzburg, Julien Biere wrote four textbooks, including a. “Professional Dia-AV” (Kodak Photo Book Prize) and “The Guide to Multi-Image”, two standard works in the AV industry. After the breakthrough in digitalization in photography, Julien Biere wrote the textbook “Goldene Scheiben” for the Photographie publishing house in collaboration with KODAK AG. In 1995 he founded the publishing house Weidmann & Biere Publishing and published several multimedia CD-ROMs. In 1999 he produced his first websites, including a. the online literature workshop “The Dream of Living in the South”.

Since the 1990s, Julien Biere has worked as a communications expert in bilateral and international development cooperation, primarily for the German Society for International Cooperation - GIZ (formerly GTZ). In addition to communication campaigns, print media and exhibitions, he primarily develops Internet solutions, a total of over twenty portals in German, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

In 2004–2007 he developed the multimedia exhibition “REX - Regensburg Experience”, a multimedia information center on the history, present and future of the World Heritage City in collaboration with media IT specialist Jan Borchers from RWTH Aachen University, the University of Regensburg and ETH Zurich.

Since 2010 he has turned back to audiovisual production. 2013 he produced for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , the films "Companies opportunities. Development ”and“ The world is on your side ”. Since 2015 he has been leading the cinematic research project on demographic change "Living Longer - What We Expect" (Living Longer - 50 Ways to Look at Age), which started in cinemas in 2018.

Julien Biere is the father of the computer scientist Armin Biere .

Works

Books

  • Co-author of Third World ed. v. Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education FWU, Grünwald; Black Book of Development Policy Ed. v. Media Committee of Development Political Groups, Munich, and from the Third World Media Handbook , Hammer-Verlag, Wuppertal 1980/81
  • Development education work with audiovisual basic media - development from below with media from below . Publishing house of the AV-Akademie Bonn-Munich 1983
  • Sound + slide. A manual on media practice . Youth Service / Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1983
  • Professional slide AV . Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1988. ISBN 3-7231-9500-8 .
  • The Guide to Multi-Image . Publishing house Photography, Schaffhausen, Honolulu, New York (1990)
  • Golden discs - present successfully with Photo CD and Portfolio Disc . Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1996. ISBN 3-7231-0042-2
  • With G. Bartels and L. Lehmann: Social marketing of contraceptives in developing countries - recommendations for German development cooperation . Research reports of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Volume 121, Weltforum Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8039-0466-8
  • With János Eifert & Zeni Jung: BodyArt Portfolio (German), portfolio CD with book, Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1997. ISBN 3-7231-0047-3
  • 50 looks at age. The book for the film "Live longer - 50 views on old age" with photographs by Brigitte Weidmann and a foreword by Reimer Gronemeyer. Norderstedt. 2018. ISBN 978-3-7528-0369-3 . ISBN 978-1-72477-080-6

Audiovisual media

  • Fear in school . Media package: slide show and teaching materials
  • Look inside . 3 projectors / single screen. Modern Art Mandala Meditation (Mamtami)
  • Corsica . Panorama show with 6 projectors on 3 fields, e.g. Sometimes with a live concert by the Caramusa group
  • The invention of the family . 3-part slide show / video
  • The last days of the woods . Media package, slide AV and video
  • The sour story of the sweet banana e. Slideshow
  • One day you will awaken - the speech of Chief Seattle . Slideshow
  • Jamaica - the bitter sugar . 3-part media package: AV / video / book
  • Nothing Compares To You . 12 projectors + laser show for Garmisch-Partenkirchen's application to the FIS World Ski Association
  • With Lothar Schiffler: The Living Planet . 4 projectors / single screen show for Olympus Optical
  • The power of multi-image . 8 projectors / single screen show
  • We have a sponsored child . Media package
  • Le couvercle Tabouna . Tunisia. Promotion spot for energy-saving oven. Betacam
  • Reserve of the Biosphere de l'Arganeraie. Morocco. Documentary. GTZ for Expo 2000. SD
  • Gestion environnementale - Entreprises Pilotes. Tunisia. Documentary for GTZ. SD
  • Companies. Opportunities. Development. Image film for BMZ 2013. HD
  • The world is on your side . Image film for BMZ 2013. HD
  • Live longer - what to expect . DE 2018. 82 min.

multimedia

Verlag Weidmann & Biere Publishing / Verlag Laterna Magica, Munich, 1995–1997:

  • With Christian Adler: Nauja, the Eskimokind , multimedia CD, Planet der Kinder series , Vol. 1
  • With Lothar Schiffler: PhotoArt Portfolio CD, Vol. 2: Architecture & Technical Structures , CD-ROM
  • With Lothar Schiffler: PhotoArt Portfolio CD, Vol. 3: Water, Weather, Landscapes & Seasons , CD-ROM
  • With Lothar Schiffler: PhotoArt Portfolio CD, Vol. 4: Objects & Symbols , CD-ROM
  • With Lothar Schiffler: PhotoArt Portfolio CD, Vol. 5: People , CD-ROM
  • With János Eifert & Zeni Jung: BodyArt Portfolio CD (English, French), Portfolio CD
  • With Brigitte Weidmann: The Zimbabwe Experience / Discover Zimbabwe. Multimedia CD (German / English)

Adventure exhibition

REX - Regensburg Experience in cooperation with Nokia Research Center, Uni Regensburg, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich

  • 2005 in the historic Salzstadl
  • 2007 in the Obermünster Museum.

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Beers, Julien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biere, Julien Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media producer, author and communication consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 1949