This
page is a ongoing excercise in trying to collect some of those
those people I've met in my life and whom made some impression
or another. And as I said, it's an ongoing thing ...
Gill
Winters and Mike Edwards.We
met at the Freewinds ship in the Caribbean in 1997 and have
tried to stay connected since. Mike is from
the US and was in Columbia for 8 years colsulting the millitary.
After we met in 1997 he went to Bosnia for some years to help
out in refugee camps where he trained a team of 80 refugees
in one camp to help other refugees. His companion then, Carlos,
became the president of I-Help International in Los Angeles
in 1997. Gill is from New York where he lives
in an old townhouse and works in renovating and designing
buildings fromhis downtown office.
Joachim Bendig, a crazy German who is
now head of the IAS Membership Office in Scandinavia. Here
at AOSH EU in Copenhagen 2002.
Ted Sorensen (here with JFK in 1962)
was Special Council to the President and was John F. Kennedy’s
speechwriter and personal assistant for 11 years. He has written
quite a few books, "KENNEDY" from 1965 being the
first one that I read and which made me contact him at his
New York law office. His grandfather came from Mors in Denmark
which was our excuse for meeting here in Denmark and visit
his roots. He had only been her once, in 1963, for a brief
visit and meeting with the King of Denmark. This time he had
three days and the mayor of Mors island was so kind to arrange
a one day tour of the spots of the island with connection
to Sorensen’s family roots. Also he spoke at Børsen
Executive Club, covering the theme "Inside the White
House During International Crisis."
From my
viewpoint his loyalty to Kennedy all the years up to this
day – and his devotion to the values they stood for
then – is unique in every sense of the word. He really
stands out. That it hasn't just been nice talk his biography
will show when it is released, hopefully 2005.
Article [link GB]
Ted Sorensen visiting his roots at Mors Island, Denmark,
in May 2003. Here accompanied by his daughter Juliet. His
grandfather left the island in 1886. .
Claus Due, award-winning danish
graphic designer and owner of "designbolaget." We
met in 1994 and have been hanging out since. He is my soulmate,
we like the same music, learn a lot from each other about
life and design.
Ian Krieger from New York. Well, he actually
lived three years on a ship in the Caribbean, after he sold
his part in the family-owned clothing business, writing poetry
and films as well as collecting baskets which he shipped to
his house in Venice Beach. Then he bought another house in
Clearwater, Florida, and that is where he lives most of the
time these days. The picture is a Polaroid from 1999 when
we shared an A-deck cabin at the ship for a month or so.
Paul
Boyle is a scottish lad living in Sydney where he
has two kids and a construction -company. He has been traveling
the world and we met in the Caribbean in December 2002.
Geo
Francos from London. We met in 2002. He has a recording
business together with two friends. He is a really well organized
artist and recently released the Media
Junkies CD-event with the well-known former British war-correspondent
and MP Martin Bell.
Lisbet & Lars Najbjerg is godfather and godmother
of Oliver and Caroline. They were working as a dentist and
jet pilot, but after Lars sold his aviation company in 1997
they moved to UK to study Scientology. They came back to Denmark
in 2003 where she now works in the church mission and Lars
is an airline pilot with Maersk.
George Goodrich from Los Angeles used to
call me Rabbi Torsten Smozten. He once was the famous owner
of "New York Georges" in Los Angeles, a restaurant
that he had the fortune burned down one day. He now works
as en executive in a Glendale computer company, Executive
Software. One the picture he looks like a lycky fellow, and
he is; it is his two daughters.
Gerth
Eriksson is the chairman of NTI. He called me in
January 2002 because he wanted me to join the companys Senior
Executive Committee. We met and liked the idea of working
together. I'm not a racist, but he is actually the
first swede I really liked.
Flemming
Bornebie was a client I met in 1994 and did a lot
of brochures for. He was then partner in a furniture factory.
We had many good laughts together. The above picture was taken
during a couple of days when we were photographing furniture.
These days he works in the tourist industy and might one day
move to an chateau in France.
David
Matter
was an italian chef who had restaurants and also has worked
as the executive chef for Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark
on several occasions. In 1997 he heard about Dianetics and
sold several thousands books personally.
Today he runs the Volunteer Minister Crusade which is a tour
of six simoustanely exhibitions touring European cities. The
above picture is from his visit to Århus in April 2003.
Oliver Stilling is a Danish writer and journalist
that I met during Ted Sorensens visit in May 2003. Even
other people have very high expectations as to his talents
(and I'm one of them) he tries to stay calm about it. He mostly
works without tape recorder and paper, just being part of
the events and then writing from what he remember; often pretty
funny observations without making fun of anybody. He's been
editor on Bertelsen on P1 and writer at DAGEN and EUROMAN, now works at editor in chief at DR2 "Den 11. time". He told me
he once did a whole article on an astraunaut - the last man on the moon - after having
met him for about 16 seconds in a doorway, just shaking his
hand as he passed by.
Thomas Vater is department head in a Danish IT company. It might sound strange, but he met my ex-wife in
a spa and then got the idea he wanted to work for me. So he
did, as a sales manager from 1998 - 2001. We've travelled
a lot together by car and have talked a lot about life and
between.
Morten Leth Jacobsen was a person I was very
happy I hired. Turned out to be a intelligent and capable
personality that I made chief of the agency. As
he reads extremely fast, knows a lot and remember everyting
he reads, we used to hand him over large files to read for
homework and come back next day and give a summary. And he
did! Today he works as information chief at South Jutland Symphony Orchestra [ www.sonderjyllands-symfoniorkester.dk ] – when not participating
in Jeopardy or other intelligent games.
He wrote a book in 2004, "Sælg dit budskab på
internettet" [Sell your message on the internet] that
can be bought at http://www.globe.dk
Patrizia Turner was my supervisor throughout two
very tough courses I did: Key to Life course in conceptual
communication through 3 months in 1997 - and 2 months during
the LOC course in personal and businesswise organization and
ethics in 1998. A tough little italian powerhouse!
Mogens Gårdsmann, illustrator and comics drawer.
We did comics together from 1976 - 1985, published a magazine
and also started an advertising agency together (in 1985).
He now lives in Australia.
Jørgen Madsen, enfant terrible from Copenhagen.
We met in France in 1990. The picture is from the surprise
party we held in 2001 on his 40th year birthday (the tuxedo
was a gift).
Steen Tronsgaard, danish fashion and
rock photographer. We met in 1989 when his studio was next
to my office and did some professional work together and also
went out for dinner and talked a lot about art, aesthetics
and life.
Kristian
Sørensen is a extremely talented young guy
that come to work with me as a graphic designer in January
2001 when he was 21. In 2007 he won a bronze medal and A+ for his exam ad campaign.
Dandi, Citizen Europe! We met in 2001 when he was
the Minister in the new Ministry of Ideas. He formerly was
the one leading the LEGO into the electronic age and mostly
makes a living of having fun and play with his gadgets. As
a little boy in the US he had a vision about living in the
mountains of Swizz - which is what he does now.
Eli Sander, director in a consulting company in Denmark.
We shared office for a year where he proved to be a real interesting
and straight forward person with a lot of experience.
Agnethe Dalby is
director in a consulting company in Denmark. She worked for
me for two years back in 1987 and we have stayed friends since,
hanging out with the same group of people. We also worked
together for three years in the local church from 1990-93
where she was known as "the mighty woman."
Johnny Heinmann - this picture is from 1988 when we
worked together in the advertising agency D3. We met in 1979
after I had heard him on the radio and called him. He was
14 then and had just started his first publishing house. Later
on he published books with Jørgen Clevin, Lotte Heise
and other danish celebrities. Since 1992 he has been running
the market analysis company, Analysegruppen.
