Until the lion learns how to write, every story glorifies the hunter.

 

Narrative thinking is discursive thinking. Reading discourses and brushing against the grain. Lifting meanings up and turning them over, looking at them from every side. Taking our foot off the accelerator when everyone else is stepping on it. And hitting the brakes when everyone wants to move on at speed. Distrusting the first glance and following the second with an open mouth.

So that impulses can emerge that surprise us inwardly and have an impact outwardly — without ever intending to. Impulses that emerge from looking differently. From questioning what seems obvious. From pausing where others rush ahead. From seeing what is hidden in plain sight. Impulses

:: about “working with moving images in film”,
:: about “storytelling and our relationship with stories“,
:: about “branding and identity”,
:: about our “relationship with nature and technology”,
:: about “designing corporate culture”,
:: about “old habits and new ways of working”,
:: about “handling visions correctly”,
:: about “diversity as a resource”,
:: about “creativity and the invention of the new” and even more current
:: about “the elemental and AI” – also possible together with my brandnew movie HEAD OF MOUNTAINS

 

Always tailored to the occasion. Always drawing from a wealth of experience. And always at home in the concrete – because that’s where stories grow.

Keynote in Linz

Branding and conflict

 
A documented example: my impulse talk at a “Denkfrühstück” of the Netzwerk Werbung in Linz (2022) on ADVERTISING AS CONFLICT, from min 5:45 – in German.

Storytelling
in DOC-Films

 
My keynote at the Narrative Congress in Stuttgart in 2021 on documentary storytelling in film, which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, could only take place online.

Feel like talking?

 

The shortest path to a great performance is a conversation. Half an hour, no strings attached – tell me what it is about.

wolfgang.tonninger@almblitz.com · +43 650 496 5480