Achievements

Exhibitions on the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi

Design of 13 exhibitions on Mahatma Gandhi, presented over 70 times in Germany, Denmark, England, Israel and India.

My Life is My Message - German, 1984 PIC
My Life is My Message - German, 1984 (minor exhibit) PIC
My Life is My Message - German, 1987 PIC
My Life is My Message - English, Hebrew, Arabic, 1987 PIC
MAHATMA - Images of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 2002 WWW
Mahatma Gandhi - Travelling by Train, 2003 WWW
Rare Moments With Bapu - From the Dustbin of Mahatma Gandhi's Personal Photographer, 2005

First major exhibition on the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi in Berlin, Germany, 30 January - 31 March 1984. VID VID PIC
Protestant Church Day, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1984 PIC
Antikriegshaus Sievershausen, Germany, 1 - 30 September 1984 PIC
Airport Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, 1984 PIC
Indischer Verein Bharat Majlis, Berlin, Germany, 2 - 15 November 1984 PIC
Volkshochschule Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany, 24 September - 30 October 1984 PIC
Adolf-Reichwein-Schule, Berlin-Schoeneberg, Germany, 29 May - 12 June 1985 PIC
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985 PIC
Stadtbuecherei Schoeneberg, Berlin, Germany, 18 November - 13 December 1985
Book Fair Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1986 PIC
Congress Centrum Wuerzburg, Germany, 4 - 10 June 1986 PIC
India Night, Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany, 28 June 1986 PIC
Indische Mensawochen, 1986, TU/FU/TFH, Berlin, Germany PIC
Major exhibition at the Ecomenical Center of Tantur, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel, 13 October - 10 November 1987 WWW
My Life is my Message - Mi Vida es mi Mensaje, Madrid, Spain, 2008 and Valladolid, Spain, 2009 WWW

Co-author of the book My Life Is My Message - Das Leben and Wirken von M.K. Gandhi (German), 1984. WWW
Author of the photo biography Gandhi, published by Phaidon Press, London/New York, 2001. WWW VID

Adviser to ORF (Austrian TV) for a TV program on Gandhi, Mirabehn, the Chipko movement, and ecology in the Himalaya region (Bäume umarmen - Hugging Trees), 1985. VID
Adviser to ZDF/3SAT (German TV) for a 3-hours TV programme, on Gandhi, 1987. VID
Consultant to ZDF (German TV) for a TV quiz on Gandhi, 1988. VID
Director research for a documentary TV serial on Gandhi directed by Ketan Mehta, Mumbai, 1997.
Consultant to the BBC TV documentary The World's Most Photographed - Mahatma Gandhi, 2004. VID
Consultant to the feature film Gandhi My Father, 2005. WWW VID

Direction and production of the audio visual show NAMASTÉ - A Journey Across India Following The Footprints Of Mahatma Gandhi in Hindi VID, English VID and German VID language. WWW
Direction of 60-minutes audio visual show MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE - The life and work of Mahatma Gandhi in English, Hindi and German WWW

Consultant to the theater play SAMMY! - The Word That Broke An Empire, 2003. WWW
Consultant to Gandhi the musical, 2007. VID

Preparation of an extensive photo archive on Gandhi and India's independence movement, 1988 - 1994. WWW
Promotion of Search-n-Research in India, a countrywide project for the identification and conservation of original material on and by Mahatma Gandhi, 1999.

Design and administration of the most extensive web site on Mahatma Gandhi, GandhiServe's Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service, 1998 - dato. WWW
Creation of GandhiTopia, a Gandhian social network, 2009. WWW
Planning, design and production of GandhiMedia, GandhiServe's digital media archive, 2011. WWW
Design and administration of the website of the multinational Gandhiserve network. WWW

Establishment of Gandhi Information Center, Berlin, 1983 (chairperson from 1983 to 1992). PIC
Establishment of the not-for-profit company GandhiServe e.K. in Germany, 1998.
Establishment of the charitable GandhiServe Foundation in Berlin, Germany, 2002. WWW

Award for life work by the Gujarati Writers' Association, Rajkot, 1992. PDF PDF
Award Photographer of the Year by Dinodia Picture Agency, Mumbai, 1996. WWW

Oral history about Mahatma Gandhi and India's independence movement. WWW
Consultant to owners of original material on and about Mahatma Gandhi for its preservation and accessibility. WWW
Established tour guide to India in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, 1987 - dato. VID VID VID PIC
Initiation and coordination of GandhiServe's Earthquake Relief Campaign in Gujarat, 2001. PIC
Establishment and promotion of the International youth project The Gandhi Bridge of Understanding, 1991 - 2007. WWW
Consultant to various media projects on Gandhi all over the world, such as TV and broadcast programs, films, CD-ROMs, exhibitions, CDs, records, web sites, publications and audio visual shows.