Marc Pierschel

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Marc Pierschel (* 1978 in Hildesheim ) is a German vegan activist and documentary filmmaker . He also self- published two cookbooks .

Life

Marc Pierschel has been a vegan since 2000 and was a vegetarian for a few years before that . While still a student of Sociology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , which he completed by 2004, he founded in 2002 the collective roots of compassion in his self-published compassion media publishing the cookbook was published in 2008 Vegan yummy yummy! .

In 2009 Pierschel made his first documentary EDGE - Perspectives on drug free culture about the straight edge movement .

His documentary Live And Let Live on people who had been found to veganism, ran in 2013 on a number of film festivals , for example in the Milano Film Festival in Milan and in the days of independent film in Augsburg. In 2016 he made the documentary 184 about a two-week campaign against commercial whaling in Iceland.

In September 2017, Pierschel's documentary The End of Meat , which premiered at the Five Lakes Film Festival in the summer , was released in cinemas, The End of Meat is intended to show the benefits of a vegan world without meat consumption . His film Butenland for which he a married couple on a sanctuary for dairy cows filmed two years, won the Hof International Film Festival in 2019 the granite - Hofer Documentary Award and was also shown at the cinema.

Movies

  • 2009: EDGE the Movie - Perspectives on a Drug Free Culture
  • 2013: Live and let live
  • 2015: 184
  • 2017: The End of Meat
  • 2019: Butenland

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with filmmaker Marc Pierschel: A world without meat? , proveg.com, August 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Marc Pierschel , filmportal.de
  3. ↑ DVD tip: "Edge - Perspectives On A Drug Free Culture" , pointer.de, September 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Live and Let Live . Milano Film Festival, September 4-14, 2014
  5. ↑ Program , Filmtage-augsburg.de
  6. ↑ The End of Meat , filmstarts.de
  7. ↑ a b Nils Michaelis: Film tip: Film "The End Of Meat": Brave new vegan world , vorwaerts.de, September 15, 2017
  8. ↑ Culture, Film + Theater: MDR Kultur - Filmmagazin , June 20, 2020
  9. ↑ GRANIT - Hof Documentary Award - Hof International Film Festival. In: hofer-filmtage.com. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Detlef Glückselig: "Butenland" wins Hofer Filmpreis , nwzonline.de, October 28, 2019
  11. ↑ "Even cows can feel pain and happiness" - touching documentary in the Bambikino , nw.de, June 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Pierschel, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cookbook author and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim