Twibber Story

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…

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:

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.

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.

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.

Two years ago I had a special birthday wish: I wanted to get five chickens. Before, I had little to do with animals. I had grown up with dogs, cats, and a pony horse, but lived a typical city life later.

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.

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!