Christian Höferle (Hoeferle)

Current

founder & owner at Höferle Consulting
founder & owner at hoeferle Communications

Past

Co Editor-in-Chief at MusikWoche / Entertainment Media Verlag
Producer/Editor at MTV Networks Central
bartender at Ksar Barclub

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Education

Universität Passau
Gymnasium Weilheim

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Connections

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Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Websites

Southeast Schnitzel

Christian Höferle (Hoeferle)’s Summary

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Höferle Consulting offers:

- Intercultural Relations
- intercultural training and cultural sensitivity workshops
- relocation and destination services
- Public Relations
- Writing and Editing
- Translation/Interpretation (English-German/Deutsch-Englisch)
- consulting U.S. businesses in dealing with international businesses who will (or want to) settle in the Chattanooga Metropolitan area
- creating German-American business opportunities in the Chattanooga Metropolitan area
- interpreting & moderating German-American differences & similarities
- consulting music industry professionals seeking business contacts in Europe and in the U.S. (promotion, marketing, physical & digital distribution, live entertainment, etc.)

Professional Background & KSA:

- 12 years of music industry experience
- a combined 12 years of experience in retail/hospitality
- worked for German music trade magazine "MusikWoche" (German equivalent to "Billboard"), most recent position: Co Editor-in-Chief
- worked for MTV Networks as Editor/Producer
- worked as German language coach at Lee University (Cleveland, TN)
- Vice President of Community Outreach at Ocoee Region Multicultural Services (ORMS)

- Sharp sense for market development and trends
- Ability to convince and exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Great ability for teamwork, team leading and team motivating
- High self-initiative, motivation and ability to handle stress
- High capacity to adapt intellectually
- Organized approach to work and ability to work under time/target pressure
- Willingness to travel when needed
- Fluent in German and English (German native)

Christian Höferle (Hoeferle)’s Specialties:

- German expatriate in the U.S. with all the experiences that come with it
- THE German-American connection in Southeast Tennessee
- Consultant, Communicator, editorial investigator with knowledge of the German and U.S. music markets. Excellent writing skills in German and English.

Christian Höferle (Hoeferle)’s Experience

founder & owner

Höferle Consulting

(Public Relations and Communications industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)

Coming from a strong bi-cultural (German-American) professional background, Höferle Consulting connects and consults businesses, decision makers, organizations, associations, educators, faith based groups, artists, activists and other entities of public life by assisting them with their needs in communications, PR, marketing, intercultural relations, relocation, interpretation/translation, transatlantic business relations, and strategic business development.

Target groups for Höferle Consulting include upper and middle management, business owners, politicians (on state, city and county levels), international enterprises (especially German and American), school boards, educational policy-makers, business development specialists, human ressources managers, relocation specialists, ad agencies, news media, alternative energy specialists, investors, analysts, non-profit organizations, artists.
founder & owner

hoeferle Communications

(Writing and Editing industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)

Owner and founder at hoeferle Communications, a bilingual media services company, founded in 2004 and located in Cleveland, TN.
While focusing on freelance writing, reporting and editing, the company also offers services related to intercultural relations, translation/interpretation (German-English/Deutsch-Englisch).

In addition to working as freelance U.S. correspondent for German trade magazine MusikWoche and its web service musikwoche.de hoeferle Communications has been contracted for projects by publications like Rolling Stone or MusikExpress, by international trade show Popkomm, by German collection society GEMA, and by German music industry trade body Bundesverband Musikindustrie.