Jurgen Fauth's Blog

In December, I joined the team at Kino-Zeit,  Germany’s oldest and largest art house film magazine, as editor and social media manager. This week, we relaunched with a brand-new design and all new functionality – along with the same quality coverage of new releases, DVDs, streaming content, trailers, news, and festivals. Kino-Zeit also has a handy movie finder built in. Check out the new look, sign up for our newsletter and follow us on all the social media!

Dark, the first original German Netflix series, premiered on the streaming service to great reviews. The New York Times profiled director Baran Bo Odar, and The Verge says:

Netflix’s Dark is hard to watch, and impossible to stop watching. The service’s first original German series echoes David Lynch and David Fincher, but finds its own queasy, compelling ground.

I translated the screenplays for all ten episodes into English. I’ve watched the first 3 episodes last night and I’m thrilled with the way the show turned out — the Verge is definitely on to something. Can’t wait to binge on the rest of Dark.

I’m a vegetarian, but that didn’t keep me from designing sensaagri.com,  the website for the Belcher family farm in the north of Senegal. Rick and Amanda Belcher love their animals, which they import from South Africa. The site comes with an online store, so if you’re in Senegal (and not a vegetarian), you can now order Rick and Amanda’s premium-quality steaks, burgers, and more at sensagri.com.

Find out more about my web design services.

The hard-boiled Berlin gangster drama 4 Blocks is available on Amazon Prime, starting today. 4 Blocks is a six-part series set in Neukölln that “relies on shocking images, fast cuts, bright colors, German-Arabic slang and a hip-hop soundtrack to draw in viewers.” (DW) 4 Blocks premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and is produced by TNT Serie and Wiedemann & Berg.

I helped translate 4 Blocks into English. Find out more about my translation projects and watch the trailer below!

Abracadabra Magic Food, the vegetarian food startup I co-launched and operate in Dakar, Senegal, was always intended as a food truck. Now, we’re collaborating with students from the Münster School of Architecture and the Institute Polytechnique Panafricain (Dakar) to develop a design concept for a sustainable, earth-friendly food truck — and build it!

We concluded the first phase of the Parapolis Project in the spring, when a group of German students visited Senegal to research mobile market structures in Dakar and conduct a workshop with the IPP students — followed by a study trip through Senegal.

Abracadabra organized and facilitated the workshop and study trip, and I documented both in photos. The photos and designs will be shown in an exhibition later this year — stay tuned for details!

The Parapolis Project is supported by generous grants from the German Embassy Dakar and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit.

For more photos and information, visit the Parapolis web site.

Every morning from our Dakar balcony, we can hear the sound of noodles smacking on the ocean: it’s the Ngor Dolphins aquagym club exercising on the beach.

You can read about why that’s special in an article Kap wrote for GOOD Magazine: A Gender Divide Melts Away In The Waters Of The Atlantic — where burkinis and board shorts are brushing thighs! I took the photos that accompany the article.

Grab a noodle and click over to GOOD to join the Ngor Dolphins.

Michael Martrich is a writer and musician from Pennsylvania who just published his first novel, The Hole in the Den. I was pleased to be asked to provide a blurb.  Here’s what I said:

All-American alchemy! With The Hole in the Den, Michael Martrich manages the miraculous transfiguration of youthful suburban memories into something far more mysterious and wise. Incantatory sentences swirl and spin, piling on secrets, smells, glances, rocks and cigarettes, names carved in bark and flashes of jarring erudition. Loss and longing, caught in the gravity well of time and language, cast a spell that imbues hard truths with uncertainty and dreams with the lucid texture of the real.

You can order The Hole in the Den now from Amazon or directly from BlazeVox.

Back when AOL Messenger was the incredible futuristic communications doodad du jour and TimeOut predicted Astoria would be the next hip New York neighborhood, one Jordan Hoffman became my editor at About.com. Fast-forward 17 years, and he’s not only a dear friend but also the official voice of Star Trek and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, The Times of Israel, and more. Also, he hooked me up with tickets for the Baker’s Dozen, an act of kindness that shall never be forgotten.

Anyway, this is just to say that you should follow Jordan in all his endeavors (if you don’t already) — and that I just built his new website, which you can admire here.

If you’re interested in having me build, redesign, host, or manage your site. It’s more affordable than you might think! Find out more here.

One sweaty August night in 1997, Prince was strutting across the stage of the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, segueing from “Purple Rain” into “Little Red Corvette,” and I felt like I was finally done with him…

Read the rest of my piece on Prince at Live for Live Music.

I’m part of a team that is hoping to launch Senegal’s first vegetarian food truck. (You read that right.) Please take a minute to watch our video and check out our website and StartNext fundraiser — and support us however you can, even if you’re not in Dakar! Thanks for checking it out and helping to spread the word.