Michaela Vieser

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Michaela Vieser (* 1972 ) is a German author and publicist .

Life

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Michaela Vieser studied Japanese Studies and Asian Art History at SOAS in London. During her studies, she lived in a Japanese monastery for a year, where she learned the tea ceremony , sword fighting, calligraphy and ikebana. After completing her studies, she received a research grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture to research the art of Japanese mountain ascetics at Tōhoku University in Sendai . She worked freely on several documentaries. Tokyo Love Stories , which she shot with Tim Hinman and Miriam Nielsen in 2000, won the special award at the Pärnu Documentary Film Festival .

From 2000 to 2002 she was employed by the Japanese media company PCCW Japan, where she developed media formats, such as the interactive travel guide Super Cityguide . In 2002 she traveled with Reto Wettach for six months in a VW bus through Germany to find overlooked places. This resulted in the bilingual book Overlooked Sights. German places. Overlooked sights. German Places . From 2004 to 2006 Michaela Vieser worked as a consultant at Scholz & Friends Agenda in Berlin, among other things on the campaign “Germany - Land of Ideas”.

In 2007 her book Heimatkunde for advanced students was published , which deals with her “strange German homeland”. In 2009 she devoted herself to meeting people from the Japanese monastery and wrote the book Tea with Buddha .

Her other books, From Coffee Lovers, Loss Vendors and Whalebones , Old Crafts - The Disappearance of Work and The Age of Machines - the Industrialization of Life, deal with changed working and living environments. Michaela Vieser gives lectures and takes part in public discussions.

Michaela Vieser's texts and columns have appeared in Financial Times Deutschland , Vanity Fair Deutschland , NZZ , Geo , Tagesspiegel and Welt am Sonntag .

She lives in Berlin and is a freelance lecturer for Japanese aesthetics at the FH Potsdam . In addition, she works as a freelance journalist for Asia for Deutschlandradio . Their feature #Me Too in Japan was also adopted in English by Deutsche Welle.

Michaela Vieser has been working as a screenwriter and co-director since 2017. She designed the series Love Rituals with Charlotte Roche for the television channel Arte .

Publications

  • Overlooked sights. German Places - Overlooked Sights. German Places. (together with Reto Wettach) Ic! -Berlin, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-9809758-0-0
  • Local studies for advanced learners. Bottomless holes, museums of lies and other curious sights. Knaur Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-78069-5
  • Tea with buddha. My year in a Japanese monastery. Pendo, Munich / Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86612-210-9
  • From coffee slippers, vendors and whalebearers. Professions from bygone times. Illustrations by Irmela Schautz. Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-10058-5
  • Old craft - the disappearance of work . Edition Braus, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3862280728
  • The age of machines - from the industrialization of life . Edition Braus, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3862281053
  • Forever and now. How to celebrate love here and elsewhere. (together with Irmela Schautz) Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-064-8

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SURNAME Vieser, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972