Franziska Kempis
MESH Collective @ UFA Lab Berlin, Germany
Franzi v. Kempis is a self-taught YouTube editor, passionate developer of educational content and trained TV journalist with a history degree. She is currently working as editor-in-chief for the media initiative MESH Collective at the UFA Lab in Berlin. Her day-to-day work in a nutshell? Development and realisation of educational social media campaigns with a special focus on producing educational, political and societal video content for social media platforms.
MESH Collective is a media initiative based at UFA Lab Berlin specialising in online video education. MESH Collective aims to rouse the interest of teenagers and young adults for and in political and societal relations, to give them the means to further understand the connections and different structures in our society. MESH Collective pursues this goal to empower young people with the help of innovative digital campaigns and online video productions. All of our productions strive to promote social commitment and civic participation in young citizens.
MESH COLLECTIVE is known for its effectual online strategies and successful YouTube formats with well-known German YouTube artists and their broad audiences. Its productions include the YouTube news shows “BrainFed” and “TenseInforms”, which are supported by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, the Hashtag campaign #YTfragtMerkel (YouTube asks Merkel), which scored 1st place in the German twitter charts and many individual format productions created with famous German YouTube artists like Mr.Wissen2Go, DarkViktory or Rayk Anders.