Williams Flores, 37 years old. Lives in Cusco (Perú) and his family has a coffee shop called Cappuccino Cafe Cusco. He is dedicated to processing and roasting the coffee. 1. What connects you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? I’m in the coffee business because it’s a family tradition that started 26 years …
Interview with Natalie Weiß from Austria
Natalie, born in Austria, worked for an NGO for years and now imports her own coffee. I met her at a coffee tasting in Santa Marta, Colombia. Read here what she thinks about coffee and fair trade. 1. What is it that links you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? Four years ago …
Interview with Lukas Leitsberger from Austria
Lukas is a Cold Brew producer and lives in Klagenfurt (Austria), I met him on a coffee trip through Colombia. 1. What is it that links you to coffee? Why do you work with coffee? Coffee has always interested me. As a child, my grandfather had a big coffee tree for many years, which stood …
Interview with Andrés Hernández (Colombia)
Andrés Hernández is 25 years old and lives in Bogotá (the capital of Colombia). He works as a quality analyst and gives courses for baristas (the people who then prepare perfect coffees for us in a café). Together with his brother he has a company dedicated to the commercialization of coffee. They are also looking …
Interview with Ariane Vera from Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Ariane is a singer and songwriter living in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She has the connection to Latin America through her father who was born in Argentina – she herself is European and Latin American. I got to know her when she came to Berlin on a lecture tour through Germany. Over a coffee she told me …
Interview mit Natalie Weiß aus Österreich
Natalie, gebürtige Oberösterreicherin, hat jahrelang bei einer NGO gearbeitet und importiert nun ihren eigenen Kaffee. Ich lernte sie bei einer Kaffeeverkostung in Santa Marta, Kolumbien kennen. Lies hier, was sie über Kaffee und fairen Handel denkt. 1. Wie bist du auf das Thema Kaffee gekommen? Vor vier Jahren besuchte ich die kolumbianische Kaffee-Region zum ersten …
Interview with José Joaquín Ordoñez (Colombia)
1. Where does your passion for coffee come from? Why do you work with coffee? I got connected to coffee through my family, we all produce coffee, we were born and grew up with coffee and have been growing this bean for generations. I work with coffee because our land and our climate favour coffee …
Interview with Heiber Andres Trujillo Samboni from Pitalito (Colombia)
Heiber Andres Trujillo Samboni, 29 years old, Colombian. Profession: Agronomic Egineer and PhD student in Agronomy Sciences in Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey. Son of a family farmers dedicated to the production of coffee for all generations. I met him during a cupping event in his hometown Pitalito, when I was travelling with a group …
Visiting the “Café Libertad” collectiv in Hamburg
Ein bisschen schwierig zu finden war er schon, der Eingang zum Café Libertad Kollektiv hier in Hamburg-Altona – eher unscheinbar sehen die Hallen aus und auch das Schild ist eher dezent. Doch als ich dann da bin und Alexej gefunden habe, der heute mein Ansprechpartner sein wird, bin ich beeindruckt. Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass …
Courageous woman – full risk
It’s cool outside and it’s slowly getting dark as we arrive at Olga’s office on a Friday afternoon. It is located at the end of a long corridor, the door looks very robust, with many locks and bolts. No wonder: we are still in the heart of the Colombian capital Bogotá, a city where there …