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You commission a portrait: for your family, your company, an anniversary or a succession. You receive a quotation with a fixed fee beforehand.
I make stories visible.
I listen, find the scenes that make up a life or a company, and bring together the people who turn them into a film.
Everyone carries a film inside them.
Every life has its own dramaturgy. There are beginnings, turning points and scenes whose meaning you only grasp years later. Anyone who builds a company, holds a family together or follows a dream is directing, often without noticing.
Those are the films that interest me. For around 20 years I have been behind the camera myself, as producer and director. After university I founded IMAGESTORM GmbH in Ludwigsburg with my friend Andreas Link, with the Link family and Andreas’ father Friedrich P. Link as partners. Hundreds of films have been made since, from documentaries to company portraits.
Today I mostly listen. I ask questions and look for the moment that reveals what drives a person. Portraits and documentaries come out of that, and often encounters nobody had thought of before.
“Inspired and guided by love, works come into being for the good of all.”
That sentence has been in the articles of association of JHK GmbH since I founded it in 2020. I love people and their stories, and I am glad for everyone who finds their own way.
Marketing did not write that sentence. I am a Christian, and since I was a boy I have trusted that my path is guided. Looking back, I can see where that trust carried me, including the detours I did not understand at the time.
People entrust me with their stories, their own or their company’s. I look at what is in them and develop the material for a filmic portrait, a documentary or a series. For that I draw on contacts with producers and broadcasters and on the network of MFG Baden-Württemberg.
Film production: IMAGESTORM GmbH
See the filmsI introduce people to each other when I am sure they fit. It concerns property, financing and shareholdings, sometimes a foreign investor looking for a partner in Germany. Where bank financing or private equity is involved, I put people in touch with experienced partners. The professional advice rests with them.
Large, unusual ideas need someone who thinks brands, people and products together. I develop concepts like these for my clients. That is how the Ischgl Trophy came about, a tennis event with international professionals at the start of the winter season.
I work with managing directors, marketing teams and founders on your brand: what does it stand for, and which idea will take it further? In a workshop we find the answers together, with your team and the knowledge already inside your company.
Example: brand and strategy workshop for MV Agusta on launching the e-bikes in Europe
I have read, assessed and helped build a great many business models. That helps when a plan needs testing before banks or investors see it. But I do not check an idea with the calculator first. I check whether it gets to someone. If it does, the numbers follow.
A good idea needs the right people to get off the ground. I help founders put their plan clearly, and introduce them to those who can move it forward.
A selection from my work as producer and director. Portrait format for Instagram, landscape for the big screen.
Entrepreneur biographies, company portraits and a story with an international background. I name names only once everyone involved has agreed.
Animated feature set in the world of Europa-Park, in cinemas since July 2025. IMAGESTORM worked on character animation and compositing.
grand-prix-of-europe.com
Idea and initial impulse for the tennis event at Tennis Center Ischgl, with internationally known players. Staged by e|motion group.
ischgl.com
Founded by Jan Henric Buettner, with international chess players such as Magnus Carlsen. I am involved in the marketing.
freestyle-chess.com
Idea and concept for a bag of Pommes Sticks marking 50 years of Europa-Park. Produced with XOX in Hameln, available in the park.
Reviewing the business case for launching the e-bikes in Europe.
IMAGESTORM GmbH has been part of Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart since 2023, the network of animation, VFX and games studios in Baden-Württemberg, initiated by MFG Baden-Württemberg.
amcrs.de
Developed together with a young screenwriter.
A company for creative work, introductions and asset management, based in Remseck am Neckar.
On the boat licence course I sat next to someone I did not know. We practised the knots at the petrol station, and a friendship grew out of it. For a first trip you normally take a small boat. We took a sixteen-metre yacht. Apparently we both prefer the bigger boat. Today I stand beside him not only on the boat but also in his group of companies. The business side stays between us.
Co-initiator of the contest, together with Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung (Ungeheuer + Ulmer). Supported by the model agency Nju-Faces.
Brought balance boards from China to the German market and founded the Airport Germany brand for them. I handled the import, the brand and the sales.
Founded together with Kim Weller and Alexandra Emmerich.
nju-faces.com
Built the digital signage screens for DOOH with IMAGESTORM and produced the content. Since 2012, today in every country Lidl operates in.
Founded after university with my friend Andreas Link, with the Link family around Friedrich P. Link as partners. Hundreds of films since then, as producer and director, for companies, brands and people.
imagestorm.de
The first conversation is on me. What follows is work, and we talk about what it is worth before it starts.
You commission a portrait: for your family, your company, an anniversary or a succession. You receive a quotation with a fixed fee beforehand.
If your story can carry a documentary, a series or a feature film, I look for producers, broadcasters and funders to finance the project. My aim is for IMAGESTORM GmbH to come in as well – whether that works depends on the material. In every case the basis is an agreement on the rights to your story.
A company, a property project or an idea still short of partners, capital or door-openers: I bring you together with the people who can move it forward. For a successful introduction we agree a commission in advance.
You want to sharpen your brand or develop something new for it. Then we work on it with your team in a workshop. The first conversation is free of charge; the workshop has a fixed day rate that you know in advance.
It starts with a conversation. Write to me.