Meet the Authors
Olaf Dilling
Olaf Dilling has his doctorate in law and works in the law firm re|Rechtsanwälte (https://re-rechtsanwaelte.de/) in Berlin. His focus is on administrative law, including environmental and traffic law. Prior to this, he was a research assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig and at the Research Centre for European Environmental Law in Bremen. In Georgia and Northern Macedonia he worked in an advisory capacity. He received his doctorate at the University of Bremen on “Cross-border Product Responsibility”. Already at the beginning of 1991 he demonstrated with other students in front of the Bremen City Hall against climate change.
Gudrun Eickelberg
Gudrun Eickelberg is a diploma business economist, but has worked as a freelance artist and author since 2010. Since 2011, she sits on Schwachhausen District Council representing the Green Party, and has been the spokeswoman for the Social, Integration and Culture Committee since 2015. In this function, she has launched an action on accessibility in road transport on the basis of the UN Convention on Human Rights. She also sits on the Greens Bremen Nordost district board. In addition to her political activities, she is chairman of the association “The Elephant!”. There, she devotes herself to the study of the colonial history of Bremen and organizes events in and on the Anti-Colonial Monument.
Richard Grassick
Richard Grassick is a Scottish film-maker & photographer. For forty years he was based in the north east of England, where he co-founded the community newspaper Durham Street Press, the North East Photo Coop, Darlington Cycling Campaign (with Beatrix Wupperman), and Darlington Media Group. In 1983 he joined Newcastle-based Amber Films where he worked for 23 years. More recently he has worked on projects in Bremerhaven, Bremen, Rostock and France, and co-founded Moving Films in 2013.
Anne Kirkham
Anne Kirkham has been a passionate cyclist since 1994, participating in the early days of Critical Mass and the bicycle activism in California and Washington State and working as a bike messenger, bicycle and environmental activist, as well as a brief stint as a cyclocross racer. In addition to being active in the globalisation movement, she has taught womens’ self-defence and is a henna artist (www.hennakunst.de) who loves cultural exchange and especially sharing music, food, and art with friends from around the world. Anne has her Master’s Degree in Political Science, focusing on theories of social and environmental justice, and is currently researching the societal aspects of transportation politics in Germany.
Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann
Wolfgang Köhler-Naumann enjoys living and loves learning. Educated as a physicist (University of Bremen, in the 1970’s), his professional experience entails responsibilities in environmental protection and occupational safety, as an engineering consultant for energy systems, as a project manager in Space Industry and as HR manager in an international concern. For many years he has been closely attached to such overarching topics as “Human scale of living together”, “Economy as a purpose –not as an end”, “Energy” and “Traffic” – as a learner and actively involving himself.
Beatrix Wupperman
Beatrix Wupperman has a doctorate in National Economics, gained at the Freie Universität Berlin. After training as a journalist, she studied economics, political science and sociology in Berlin. In 1987/88 she was economic speaker for the Green Frauenfraktion in the Hamburg parliament, and then spent 20 years at the Bremen Chamber of Employees as a consultant for economic policy, urban development and the environment. Since 1995, she has been a member (and partly chair) of the executive committee of the BUND (Friends of the Earth) Bremen. Since 2008 she has worked as a filmmaker with Richard Grassick ( “Beauty and the Bike” (2009), “Hommage to Auto*Mat” (2011), “From Us To Me” (2016), “Cantem” (2016). She co-founded Moving Films in 2013.