Arved Gintenreiter
Biography
Arved Gintenreiter is a journalist with a focus on emotional storytelling. Confronted with the challenge of how to convey fact-based information to an increasingly partisan post-truth audience, he transforms complex contemporary environmental, social, and political subjects into compelling audio-visual information experiences.
Arved was born 1975 in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany. The first decade of his childhood he spent in Asia, mainly in Pakistan and Turkey, where he experienced defining years between diverse cultures and norms. Taking such tension as a source of inspiration, he still lives and works nomadically.
After obtaining a master’s degree in business economics at the University of Frankfurt, 2004 he moved to Damascus, Syria, for several months to learn Arabic. During his travels in the Middle East with its rich history and complicated politics he decided to top up his education and become a journalist.
Upon return to Frankfurt, he started writing at a local newspaper and soon served an apprenticeship as a news journalist at Germany’s news agency dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) in Hamburg and Berlin among other places. He worked on national and international assignments as a reporter and editor both in the departments of economics and foreign affairs.
Plagued by a feeling of routine, 2008 he decided to quit his job at dpa and pursue his passion for photography by contributing to pa picture-alliance as a freelancer. After moving to Venice, Italy, he started a business offering customized photography workshops, while also working on his Venice Monochrome photo series. 2017 he moved to the Mediterranean island of Malta, where he is presently based.
Intrigued by a rapidly changing media landscape, recently his attention has returned to his journalistic roots. Arved’s latest work explores concepts of how to bring reliably sourced and edited information to skeptical recipients, experimenting with information experiences comprising narration, photography, and soundscapes to extend the rational perception of storytelling by building on the creative imagination of the audience.
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1975, Born in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany |
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1976-81, Pakistan |
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1981-84, Turkey |
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1985, Germany |
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1987, Start playing the cello |
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First Minolta SLR, 1988
Still trying to figure out how this thing works, 1989
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1990, Giving up on the Cello |
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1991-2001, Focus on Fencing (borderline between passion and obsession) |
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1995, Unexpectedly passing high school exams |
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1995-96, Community service with elderly |
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1996, Enrolling for Business Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Kitchen sink darkroom, 1998-2003 |
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1999, China travel |
| Photography trip to Nepal, 2002 |
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| Projection of slide show Nepal, 2003 |
2003, Master’s degree in Corporate Finance, Corporate Organization, and Financial Derivatives |
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2004, Learning Arabic in Damascus, Syria
2004-05, Middle East travels
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2005, Wine-Bartender in Frankfurt |
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2006, Freelancer for a local newspaper
2007, Apprenticeshiop at news agency dpa
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2008-09, Reporter and editor for news agency dpa in
both departments of Economy and Foreign Affairs |
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Freelance photographer, contributing to pa picture-alliance
First job: Ireland EU referendum, 2009
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Freelance photography in Egypt, 2010
Arabic Impressions project, 2010-11
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Freelance photography in France, 2011
Motorbike accident ten days into the project. Learning how impractical both hands in a cast can be. Mastering Photoshop while being impaired
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Developing a new photography workshop concept, 2012
Exhibition Venice Monochrome, 2015
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2012-2017, Venice, Italy |
| Working on Evolibrium project, 2015-22 |
2015-17, Splitting time beteween Iceland and Italy |
| Totally overwhelmed. Starting to work on two projects in Asia; will they will ever be completed? |
2016, Bangkok, Thailand |
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2017, Moving to Malta |
| Living through a challenging pandemic, 2020 |
2020, Living through a challenging pandemic |
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Exhibition Evolibrium – Transformative Chaos at a Crossroads, 2023 |
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