Media education

“Plötzlich Zukunft” — Kyritz

With the non-profit STATTwerke e.V. he builds a pilot programme for school avoiders at Carl-Diercke-Schule in Kyritz — and in year two the group dares the big one: their own musical. Written, rehearsed and performed over a whole year, until more than 700 people applaud in the biggest hall of town. The project wins the Innovationspreis der Wirtschaft; the radio project “Funkkosmos” takes the Medienkompetenzpreis Brandenburg.

KfW Stiftung — Schloss Badingen

For KfW Stiftung, children at Schloss Badingen animate their own stop-motion film, frame by frame — miniature worlds, blue screens and tablet rigs between castle walls. The making-of shows how much patience fits into three seconds of film.

Campus Rütli — The studio

The firm home of this work is the Manege in Berlin-Neukölln, where Dan has run the recording studio since 2012. Out of the sessions grow entire albums — up to 19 “Manege-Hits” per CD, sung and rapped by five-year-olds through to the staff: the “Manege Allstars”.

From the booth to the screen

What starts as a beat in the studio does not stop at the track. The KDS Crew wrote, recorded and then shot their own song — lyrics, hook, camera, edit, all of it theirs. It is the clearest answer to why the music workshops exist: a group that arrives as listeners leaves with a piece of work carrying their name.