Twibber Story

Since my childhood I have loved chicken and dreamt of having some at my home. The industrial livestock farming where millions of laying hens are held under painful conditions always saddened me.

My job as a film producer took me to Jeddah, the Saudi Arabian city at the Red Sea, last week to film a promotion for the upcoming Formula 1 race. While I have been working in that region for quite a while I had not been…

If I would have had children at a very young age, I could have still been a young grandmother. Though this sounds strange to me – I neither have children nor grandchildren – I was very impressed by a new project here in Bavaria:

I’m almost 70 years old – and I go to school again. There I support children to solve their disputes. I work like many others for the German organization Seniorpartner in School which trains people of generation 55+ as voluntary mediators in schools.

I am a veterinarian in Berlin and since I was five years old, I knew that I wanted to choose this job. My father had taught me that nature and human beings are equivalent and that animals need our support.

When I moved my family to Dubai back in 2013 I knew we were in for a special ride - full of new adventures and discoveries!

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.

As former German bankers-turned-camel whisperers, me and my husband never expected to become pioneers of an award-winning camel dairy in Australia. A world away from managing investments at one of the eldest savings banks in Germany.

When I moved from Berlin to the Baltic Sea in 2012, I knew: I had to decelerate my life. Before, it seemed I lived in a hamster wheel. First as a stewardess, then in a career in communication and marketing. A glittering life in the big…