Achievements

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 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
• Photo exhibition "Mahatma Gandhi's life in colour" during the Sarvodaya Conference, New Delhi, 2015 VID

• Consultant 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
• Consultant 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, English and German language, 1998. WWW VID
• Direction of 60-minutes audio visual show MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE - The life and work of Mahatma Gandhi in English, Hindi and German, 2018 WWW VID

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

• Former proprietor of GandhiServe e.K., Berlin.
• Founder of GandhiServe Foundation, Berlin.
• Co-founder of Ruehe Healthcare GmbH and Ruehe ecoClean GmbH