Yellow Van Stories
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -Yellow Van Stories is an interview podcast hosted by the photographer and filmmaker Bastian Fischer. He speaks to creatives across the globe exploring the value of culture in times of crisis and how it has the power to bring us closer together. Fonsi departs every Thursday at 21.00 CET. Come on the road with us! Find out more on www.yellowvanstories.com
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Iryna Schneider "Ein Amalgam aus Großstadt und Natur"
January 11, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 133 MBToday is a double premiere! For the first time I made an actual home visit and I conducted the entire interview in German! My apologies to all English native speakers, the next one will be for you again as well. Meine Reisegefährtin dieses Mal ist Iryna Schneider. Sie betreibt eine eigene Marketingagentur seitdem sie aus der Ukraine nach #München umgesiedelt ist. Über sich selbst sagt sie: “Tagsüber bin ich Marketingmanagerin und abends Künstlerin.” Wir unterhalten uns über ihre Kunst entl...
Mykola Kondrashev "Choosing Ukraine"
June 29, 2023 21:57 - 1 hourMykola Kondrashev is an award-winning cinematographer and photographer based in Kiyv who also holds a master's degree in psychology. With his experience on a wide array of projects including commercial music videos, feature films, and television series, Mykola has honed his skills to create captivating and powerful visuals. Mykola’s impressive portfolio of projects spans the globe and he has worked with huge names like Coca-Cola, Radisson and Nescafé. Mykola’s dedication to his craft is e...
Gayane Arushanian "Chaos & Harmony"
May 11, 2023 18:30 - 1 hourGayane Arushanian is a multidisciplinary artist from Kyiv. She is the founder of the School of Experimental Art in Kyiv and the G-ART STUDIO in Zaporizhzhia. Gayané is not only an outstanding artist, but she also has a Master's in Urban Construction and Design and Economic Cybernetics from the Zaporizhzhia State Engineering Academy. Her mathematical knowledge and her artistic eye and love for colour enable her to create shapes, forms and colour patterns oscillating between harmony and chao...
Anastasiia Sanzharovska "Day By Day"
April 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hourAnastasiia Sanzharovska is a producer, director, and video editor from Ukraine. She originally studied system analysis and maths but turned to her real passion film soon after finishing her studies. She has been working as a producer, director, 1st AD, and video editor ever since. In February 2022, Anastasiia was in Egypt for a 3-week holiday but got stuck there due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She has been living there ever since. We'll talk about her early beginnings in filmmaking, w...
Andriy Dubchak "Dignity"
March 30, 2023 17:00 - 1 hourToday with us in the Yellow Van is Andriy Dubchak, a correspondent and photographer for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as well as the founder of the interactive media platform Donbas Frontliner. He specializes in telling the stories of soldiers and civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. He received a 2022 Free Media Award from the Fritt Ord and ZEIT foundations for his "courageous professional reporting from battle zones." Andriy also received a Lovie award for coverage...
Dafna Rachok & Ivan Shmatko "The Stoic Use of Expletives"
March 16, 2023 19:00 - 2 hours - 200 MBWith us in the Yellow Van this week are Dafna Rachok and Ivan Shmatko. Dafna Rachok is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research seeks to understand how vulnerable groups in Ukraine respond to existing HIV prevention and treatment programs and how their attitudes to the state shape their desire or reluctance to seek those programs. Ivan Shmatko is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Alberta (Canada). Ivan has been a part of ...
Nick Torzhevskyi "Ukraine Rebirth"
August 25, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBNick Torzhevsky is a film director and producer from Kyiv with over 10 years of experience directing and producing broadcast TV series, commercials, and feature films. Nick's latest project, Ukraine Rebirth, is putting a focus on the rebuilding of Ukraine after the war - something that struck me as extraordinary as the war is still raging on without an end in sight. On the website of Ukraine Rebirth, the project is introduced as follows: "Our main message within the series, as seen from the ...
Alex Kraev "Punked"
August 04, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBAlex Kraev is a musical multi-talent who gave his soul to punk rock. He plays the drums, bass, and guitar in multiple bands and is an absolute musical powerhouse. His influences are many, but his goal is one and the same: to challenge stereotypes and self-imposed laziness of body and mind. His music is loud and gets under your skin. Challenging riffs, vocal cascades, energetic rhythms and climactic melodies tear you out of your comfort zone, sharpen your senses and abduct your body before th...
Oleksiy Martsenyuk "The Shifting Of Desires"
July 28, 2022 17:00 - 2 hours - 173 MBOleksiy Martsenyuk is the Executive Director of the Center for Defence Strategies in Kiyv, an organisation that helps to monitor defence reforms and develop key government policies that will affect the country's security and defence sector. This certainly needs a little more explanation from you, Oleksiy! And we will get into that in the course of the podcast. Also, he served as a Civilian Deputy Minister in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence for just under a year. Originally, Oleksiy has a b...
Anna Pykhtina "Home's Strong Calling"
July 21, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBAnna Pykhtina is a communication and PR expert from Kyiv, Ukraine, focusing on Ukrainian NGO work and civic education, currently living in Warsaw, Poland. After the outbreak of the war, Anna and her boyfriend fled Ukraine to Poland, where they are currently living with friends. Anna was the president of AEGEE-Kyiv, Europe's biggest interdisciplinary student organization. She has been travelling extensively in Europe and is, I think it is safe to say, a strong proponent of the European idea. ...
Oleksii Isakov "Breaking The Stereotypes"
July 14, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBOleksii Isakov holds a Master in Intercultural Communication Studies and a Bachelor in Linguistics and Translation Studies. His main focus is literature and film. He was born in Odesa and has been living in Germany for the last ten years working at the European-University Viadrina in Frankfurt a.d. Oder - the only university in Germany with a professorship for Ukrainian History, which says a lot about Ukraine's perception in Germany - and throughout the world. In preparation for our conversa...
Mariia Ponomarova "Perception Of Strength"
July 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBIn our first episode of the new season, our guest is film director, screenwriter, and creative producer Mariia Ponomarova (1991, Kyiv). Mariia studied film directing and screenwriting at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema & Television in Ukraine graduating cum laude in 2013. Focusing on character development in film during her course, Mariia graduated from the Master of Film artistic research program in 2016 at the Netherlands Film Academy. Short fiction and document...
Yellow Van Stories, Season 02, Trailer
June 30, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MBFonsi, the Yellow Van, is ready to depart for another season. Find out what the season is all about in this trailer. Music: Jim Kroft "Love In The Face Of Fear" Yellow Van Stories is a Mind The Bump Production Support the show Yellow Van Stories is a Mind the Bump Production.
Print For Crisis "Looking Back and Ahead"
May 14, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBToday we come to you with the, for now, last episode about Myanmar. The initiative Print For Crisis, which has been on the road with us for the last four weeks, has come to an end and we thought it would be a nice opportunity to have a small retrospective of the conversations we were lucky enough to have in support of the initiative. Through my conversations with Teza, Chiara, and Minn, I learned that there are a lot of reasons for hope and optimism for the future of Myanmar. One reason in...
Teza Soe "A Female Revolution"
April 29, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBTeza Soe is a Burmese visual storyteller with a doctorate in photography, who received her PhD with a project focusing on the role of women in Myanmar society. After reading the preface to her thesis, I felt that it would be a much better introduction than I could ever hope to craft for her. So, just this one time, I took the liberty of copying her own words, rather than write an introduction myself: I left my country, Myanmar, when I was 16 to attend a university in Thailand. The reasons ...
Minn Tent Bo "How Democracies Die"
April 22, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBMinn Tent Bo is a Burmese human rights consultant, author, and independent election observer who provides political, conflict and legal analysis, programme support and strategic advice to local civil society organisations, international non-governmental organisations and multilateral organisations. He has been on Election Expert Missions to various countries in his function as a programme officer for the Carter Center and as an independent advisor to the EU. Minn is a consultant to Amnesty...
Chiara Luxardo "Print For Crisis"
April 15, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 97 MBChiara is an Italian visual storyteller based in the UK in London. In her work she explores identities, relationships and gender issues. She is an active member of Women Photograph, a non-profit launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women* and nonbinary visual journalists. The roots for her interest in identity and the power of relationships can be traced back to a farm near Milan, I believe, where Chiara grew up. It is a place that has been in her family's hands for many generations ...
Claudia Hector "Woman in Cinema"
April 01, 2021 18:00 - 2 hours - 167 MBClaudia is a camera assistant from Munich in Germany. And, above all, my "baby" sister. For close to ten years now, she has been honing her craft in film and cinema, steadily rising up in the camera ranks. Her passion and joy are absolutely infectious, despite the obvious stigma of this particular adjective of late. She has been a part of many big German film and TV productions, working with some of the finest German actors, directors, and camera operators. I am extremely proud of her and...
Erik Lorenz "A Micro-Adventure"
March 25, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBErik is an author, publisher, moderator and podcast host from Berlin, Germany. He has published an impressive amount of work, ranging from travel guides, travel books, short story anthologies to magazine articles and more. He is also the founder of Weltwach (which roughly translates to world awake), a German online magazine for adventure and travel topics. The related podcast, hosted and produced by Erik, already has produced 188 episodes and counting. Since last year, the Weltwach podcast ...
George Donios "The MINI Diary"
March 18, 2021 18:00 - 3 hours - 279 MBGeorge is an author, a radio DJ and presenter, a musician, photographer and filmmaker. But above all he is a traveller, exploring the shared essence that makes us all human. His thirst for the world and its people is hard to quench and the moments of connection and mutual exchange always leave him wanting more. No wonder then that he turned to photography and its scientific promise of turning ethereal visual impressions into lasting memory, making good on one of mankind’s oldest dreams. He...
Xiao Peng "One Life"
March 11, 2021 19:00 - 3 hours - 281 MBXiao graduated in 2005 with honors in chemistry from Caltech and subsequently worked as a research technician at the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT and has an MD-PhD from the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program in New York City. At the moment, she is finishing up her 4th clinical year at Johns Hopkins University as a combined paediatrics-medical genetics resident. She is going to stay there for a 5th year as a research fellow and genetics chi...
STEPS "The Value Of A Kind Word"
February 25, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBShelter and housing is taken for granted for most of us. And when we speak of lockdown we generally think of it as an isolation within our own very comfortable four walls. But what about our fellow humans who are not fortunate enough to have a place of their own, who don’t have this very basic need covered? How does the pandemic beat down on their already unimaginably harsh reality? Going through a second and third lockdown, it is worth remembering that there are others less fortunate than...
Oska Melina Borcherding "A Vampire's Diary"
February 18, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBOska Melina Borcherding is a director, actor, dancer and musician from the beautiful city of Berlin. I got to know Oska during the Ierapetra Film Festival on Crete in Greece, where he was running with his short film “Giagia” (which is Greek for “grandmother”). It is a beautiful film about the days following the death of his Greek grandmother and how her legacy and memory is preserved in the stories shared by her family and by the characters she helped shape. He is planning a sequel to the f...
Erik Penny "The Shape Of Cowboy Boots"
February 11, 2021 18:00 - 2 hours - 182 MBErik Penny is a US songwriter, musician and painter who has been living in Berlin for more than 12 years. Erik grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he started his musical career as a bassist at the age of 16. A while later he started a course in painting which he aborted shortly before graduating to go on tour with his band. This success of the tour led to his decision to go to Los Angeles. Here he recorded several EPs and two studio albums - "Footprints" and "The Linger Kiss". After various vi...
Thomas Hinterberger "Saison OFF"
February 04, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBThomas Hinterberger is a solo ballet dancer at the Opera National Du Rhin (ONDR) in Mulhouse, France. He got his diploma in ballet dancing from the Academy For Dance and Music in Munich, Germany, in 2001 and he holds a professorship in classic dance and music since 2018. Born in 1980 in Munich (Germany), he trained as a dancer at the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in Munich with Konstanze Vernon, Hans-Joachim Mets and Alexander Prokofiev. From 1999 to 2001, he participated in productions with the Bayer...
Jim Kroft "A Conversation About America"
January 28, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBToday we are going on the road with an old acquaintance and Yellow Van veteran: musician and filmmaker Jim Kroft, one of my greatest friends and record-holder in consecutive days spent in Fonsi with me. His documentary film “A Conversation With America” is available for free on YouTube right now. It was filmed 4 years ago in the three months leading up to the election. He travelled all across the United States, looking to understand the growing political divide by searching out conversation...
Vicky Markolefa "Minding The Bump"
January 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBVicky Markolefa is an award-winning visual storyteller and communication expert from Greece. And she is the co-founder of Mind The Bump, the creative collective behind the Yellow Van Stories. But, above all, she is the love of my life. In this episode we talk about our plans for the year, projects to come, and why we do what we do. It provides you with an opportunity to get to know one of the major driving forces behind this show as she finds guests for the show, provides much needed feedba...
Amjad Ramadan "Hidden Talent"
December 17, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 191 MBAmjad Ramadan was born in Homs, Syria, in 1995. He left Syria due to the civil war and fled to Turkey in 2012 at the age of 17. He lived in Kastamonou for 4 years where he enrolled at the local university to study journalism. Due to Amjad's financial decline, he had to withdraw before any of the courses had even started and without his curiosity having been quenched. He decided to go to Europe for a better future perspective and arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2016. Amjad's arr...
Engeli Haupt, "Signature Dish"
December 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBEngeli Haupt was born in South Africa and grew up in the capital Pretoria. She studied linguistics at UNISA, the biggest university of the country, that counts amongst its alumni Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. 16 years ago Engeli moved to Mexico due to her love for the Spanish language and, most of all, due to her adventurous and curious nature. During this time, she has been working in English language teaching in various roles. At the moment she works as a materials writer, i.e. she deve...
Laura & Daniel Seiler, "Camp 4 You"
December 03, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 202 MBIn today’s episode I will be speaking to Danny and Laura Seiler, who got stuck in the Moroccan desert during the first lockdown. For two months, they and their two beautiful daughters, lived in an oasis where they were stalked by a scorpion, painted an entire swimming-pool blue, and built their very own pizza oven. They will tell us why hospitality is at its greatest when somebody puts a spade in your hand, how garbage can be an ally in conspiratorial planning, why “Inshallah” is such a life...
Laura & Daniel Seiler "Camp 4 You"
December 03, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 101 MBIn today’s episode I will be speaking to Danny and Laura Seiler, who got stuck in the Moroccan desert during the first lockdown. For two months, they and their two beautiful daughters, lived in an oasis where they were stalked by a scorpion, painted an entire swimming-pool blue, and built their very own pizza oven. They will tell us why hospitality is at its greatest when somebody puts a spade in your hand, how garbage can be an ally in conspiratorial planning, why “Inshallah” is such a life...
Olga Stefatou, "Positive Change Is A Responsibility Towards Yourself"
November 26, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 180 MBOlga Stefatou is a visual artist and curatorial consultant. She recently moved back to her native country Greece after working with Qatar Museums as photography specialist for two years. In her practice, Olga works with mixed media and mainly with photography. She investigates the idea of freedom and its connection to geopolitics, heritage and social structures, with a special interest in gender issues. Believing that image-making should engage the personal and collective consciousness, he...
Olga Stefatou, "Positive Change Is A Responsibility Towards Yourself"
November 26, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 89.9 MBOlga Stefatou is a visual artist and curatorial consultant. She recently moved back to her native country Greece after working with Qatar Museums as photography specialist for two years. In her practice, Olga works with mixed media and mainly with photography. She investigates the idea of freedom and its connection to geopolitics, heritage and social structures, with a special interest in gender issues. Believing that image-making should engage the personal and collective consciousness, he...
Mabel Krieger, "The Healing Choir"
November 19, 2020 18:00 - 2 hours - 207 MBMabel is a Brazilian psychologist working at INCA - Instituto Nacional de Cancer, the National Cancer Institute, in Rio de Janeiro. INCA is a public service within the SUS network - SUS stands for Unified Health System. It's not a single hospital, actually, it's an institute that behaves as an organ of the Health Ministry. Meaning INCA not only offers health assistance, but also professional education and research, as well as build public policies in the field of cancer. The institute ha...
Leo Santos "The Proven Value Of Art During A Pandemic"
November 12, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 85.6 MBLeo is a filmmaker, writer, director, and cameraman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I had the great pleasure of meeting Leo and his wonderful wife Mabel at the International Film Festival Ierapetra on Crete in 2018 and we got along brilliantly right from the start. Leo was running with his documentary film "Right There", the story of a Rio policeman, who abhors the use of guns and violence in general, traveling to South Africa to understand how a country that had been so deeply divided by Apa...
Leo Santos, "The Proven Value Of Art During A Pandemic"
November 12, 2020 20:00 - 2 hours - 171 MBLeo is a filmmaker, writer, director, and cameraman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I had the great pleasure of meeting Leo and his wonderful wife Mabel at the International Film Festival Ierapetra on Crete in 2018 and we got along brilliantly right from the start. Leo was running with his documentary film "Right There", the story of a Rio policeman, who abhors the use of guns and violence in general, traveling to South Africa to understand how a country that had been so deeply divided by Apa...
Jim Kroft, "A Bridge Between Left And Right"
November 05, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBJim Kroft is one of my dearest friends, and an especially talented one as well. Music, videography, and photography are the fields where he excels the most, but I have a feeling if I were to catch him with a paint brush in his hand, I would be equally awed. In 2015, Jim and I set out in Fonsi to document the European Refugee Trail for a self-funded project. What had been planned to be 3 weeks turned into almost two and a half months on the road. We both felt that human suffering cannot and ...
Welcome to the Yellow Van Stories
June 01, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes - 9.32 MBYellow Van Stories is a podcast hosted by the photographer and filmmaker Bastian Fischer. In the show, he speaks to artists from all over the world, exploring the value of culture in times of crisis and how it has the power to bring us all closer together. Yellow Van Stories is like a spontaneous get-together, celebrating heartfelt exchange in a time where physical distancing and quarantine seem to chisel away at our sanity and most basic human needs. In this introductory episode you wil...