Krzysztof Gonciarz

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Krzysztof Gonciarz (2016)

Krzysztof Gonciarz (born June 19, 1985 in Krakow , Poland ) is a Polish media producer , book author and video blogger .

Career

Even when he was still at school, Gonciarz was working as an official translator and voice actor on computer games such as Baldur's Gate 2 and Ratchet & Clank . He then studied cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University in his hometown of Krakow and then worked as an editor for the online portal GryOnline.pl . Between 2011 and 2012 he also published three guide books on computer games and the Internet .

Gonciarz has lived in Tokyo's central Shibuya district since 2014 , where he runs a media production company called Tofu Media LLC . At the same time he started working as a video blogger. For his contributions on travel through Japan , South Korea and Taiwan published on YouTube.com , he received the Traveler 2015 award from the National Geographic Society .

Via the crowdfunding portal Patronite , on which Gonciarz has meanwhile received most of the donations, he succeeded in realizing further projects in 2016. These include a documentary film about the Aokigahara suicide forest in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan, and a travel film about the nature and culture of Greenland . Until 2019, Gonciarz devoted himself primarily to the video channel TheUwagaPies , in which he and the Chicago- born video blogger Katharine Mecinski reported on everyday peculiarities in East Asia .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vstars.pl/dawno-dawno-temu-krzysztof-gonciarz
  2. ↑ http://www.eurogamer.pl/articles/2012-12-06-czy-krzysztof-gonciarz-opuszcza-branze-gier
  3. ↑ http://natemat.pl/134815,japonia-futurystyczny-kraj-rodem-z-lat-80-tych-gonciarz-wspolczesna-japonska-technologia-to-iphone-y
  4. ↑ https://www.onet.pl/?srcc=ust&pid=662535c0-47f2-40bc-8423-82b7d5dfa1f3&sid=e1b8615d-fd05-494c-ad53-7de619fc2334&utm_v=2
  5. ↑ https://www.spidersweb.pl/2016/05/krzysztof-gonciarz-patronite.html
  6. ↑ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/02/16/digital/the-uwaga-pies
personal data
SURNAME Gonciarz, Krzysztof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish media producer, author and video blogger
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Poland