Twibber Stories

We are former college students of E-commerce sciences at the University of Würzburg in Bavaria, now finishing our graduations in Berlin and Leipzig. We are also dog lovers.

I’m a singer and have guessed for a while that singing can have a positive effect on people with dementia. My mother suffers from this disease. When I sing with her, apparently it not only improves her mood but also her cognitive abilities. After singing she…

As a journalist, I meet many people, but there are encounters that just warm up your heart. For me, this was recently my talk to Sam Bloom, an Australian woman, who is paraplegic after an accident on a family vacation in Thailand a few years ago.

Like most of us, my wife and I feel the urge to reduce our footprint and to do our tiny part to help minimize man-made climate change.

One woman who I really admire is a local here in my hometown Munich – Lydia Staltner. Lydia founded LichtBlick e.V. in 2003, a non-profit organization that takes care of elderly people in need.

Summer in the city: as many of us now can work online, we decided to spend a few weeks in our old home town Berlin over the summer.

Believing passionately in a vegan lifestyle, I was very impressed to hear about two entrepreneurs in Mexico who have developed vegan leather made with nopal, a cactus.

Now that I got vaccinated I wanted to explore "my" new continent after moving from the U.S. to Luxembourg a while back. So I took a trip with a friend to the Northwest of France, the Bretagne.

My five year old son gave me a special Twibber moment: While on a visit in my home country Togo, we sat in a bar and my son was sipping his coke. Suddenly a much elder native guy came up to us and begged for food.…

As a single mother of two small kids, I went to the main station in Munich in the summer of 2015 when many refugees from Syria arrived. My five-year-old son asked me: „We can’t really help them, right?“