Marc Pierschel
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
- Vegan yummy yummy! , Self-published, Münster, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026420-7 .
- Vegan! - Vegan lifestyle for everyone , self-published, Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028404-5 .
Web links
- Website
- Marc Pierschel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Marc Pierschel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with filmmaker Marc Pierschel: A world without meat? , proveg.com, August 2017
- ↑ a b c d Marc Pierschel , filmportal.de
- ↑ DVD tip: "Edge - Perspectives On A Drug Free Culture" , pointer.de, September 14, 2010
- ↑ Live and Let Live . Milano Film Festival, September 4-14, 2014
- ↑ Program , Filmtage-augsburg.de
- ↑ The End of Meat , filmstarts.de
- ↑ a b Nils Michaelis: Film tip: Film "The End Of Meat": Brave new vegan world , vorwaerts.de, September 15, 2017
- ↑ Culture, Film + Theater: MDR Kultur - Filmmagazin , June 20, 2020
- ↑ GRANIT - Hof Documentary Award - Hof International Film Festival. In: hofer-filmtage.com. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Detlef Glückselig: "Butenland" wins Hofer Filmpreis , nwzonline.de, October 28, 2019
- ↑ "Even cows can feel pain and happiness" - touching documentary in the Bambikino , nw.de, June 6, 2020
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SURNAME | Pierschel, Marc |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cookbook author and filmmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |