El Mundo 2003

International Slide Show Festival for travel & adventure

‘Best Presentation overall’ and

‘Audience Award’

(FAZ, 22.02.2005) “How do you travel the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea with two bikes, a trailer and a foldable boat, and explore the back-country at the same time? […] You have to have seen this with your own eyes. […] That’s why Barbara Vetter and Vincent Heiland, two photo journalists from Jena, traveled 3000 km for their ‘Adventure Danube’. The resulting slide show was one of the highlights of the tradeshows ‘Bicycle – Market – Future’ in Bremen and Karlsruhe.”

(AV-Tipp 4/2003) “A drum roll for Barbara Vetter and Vincent Heiland for their travel adventure ‘Jena – Yemen’. […] Often, the last contribution of a festival doesn’t have a good hand with the jury or the audience. The audio visual marathon – 15 talks à 30 minutes – takes its toll when it comes to receptiveness and concentration. Not so, however, when you are treated to splendid fireworks for all senses. That’s exactly what the two bike-globetrotters offered. It’s only fair that their expressive and refreshing presentation ‘Jena – Yemen’ was chosen to be the winner of the festival. But that’s not enough. Several minutes of applause indicated that the demanding audience found its favorite for the Audience Award. Hence, Barbara Vetter and Vincent Heiland received a second of the treasured El-Mundo- trophies.”

(AV-Tipp 1/2003) “During the past year, we watched more than 50 travel shows. We endured many of them – even from the so called professionals –patiently, we accepted some of them as not hopeless, but only 6 – six!! – carried us away. One of these was ‘Jena – Yemen’.”

• Weitsicht-Festival in Frankfurt and Darmstadt

• Abenteuer Erde (Adventure Earth) – Lecture Series in Munich

• Länder–Bilder–Mythen (Countries–Pictures–Myths) – Lecture Series in Berlin

• grenzgang (Border Line) – Lecture Series in Cologne

• Mundologia – Slide Show Days in Freiburg

• Weltblicke (World Sights) – Slide Show Festival in Essen

• Die Welt im Sucher (The World in the View-Finder) – Lecture Series in Leipzig

• Weltweit-Festival (Worldwide Festival) in Mainz

• Blickpunkt Erde (Spotlight Earth) - Lecture Series in Erlangen

• Lichtbildarena (Slide Show Festival) in Jena