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Agency for Applied Communication

BLEIBESCHOEN

– Olaf Barken –

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Discreet & trustworthy

Secret Service

In our Secret Service, we as an agency are always committed to your trust and carry out our tasks discreetly. Tailored to your wishes, we provide the following services – through trusted partners in our network wherever we cannot deliver them ourselves.

As our agency is not available for individual services, these services can only be booked as a package with a minimum contract term. You will receive your personal offer based on your individual needs and by arrangement.

  • Office-Service – Communication / PR
  • Home & Garden – Development
  • Crisis Management
  • Preventive Consulting
  • Personal-Coaching
  • Start-up Consulting
  • Financial Mediation
  • Business-Guiding
  • Hotel-Bookings
  • Private Chefs
  • BOOK-Agent
  • Networking
Two people on a sun terrace by the sea – communication and values

Communication & Values

Agency for Applied Communication

We look forward to accompanying you creatively and communicatively on your journey. It is fundamental for us to know that in you we have a sustainable partner at our side who wishes to convey messages connected with human values.

This is where we are strong, and we have a great network of partners who meet you as equals to make you successful.

“Planet conformity is the code of honour for our services: happy people produce, serve and trade together in respectful, sustainable harmony with flora, fauna & planet – for a good present and a secure future for generations to come.”

Personal Development

Coaching & Mentoring

First, a personal “bearing” of our clients is the basic condition for embarking more deeply on a shared path. Not everyone is made for just one thing – personal abilities, preferences and visions, combined with our far-reaching expertise, shape your course through life.

Ideally, this develops into a mentoring project that supports you over a longer period and, step by step, develops and strengthens your personality together with you. Because nobody makes it alone – and in the end, shared success is more fun to celebrate as a team.

01

Analysis

Everything requires a careful and thorough analysis to identify sources of error and future shallows early on. Forward-looking planning with clear goals is always the first step to success – with a neutral view of the facts.

02

Design

From the analytical facts we design a complex framework, which is selected, optimised and finalised together. Nothing is impossible – if you can think it, the path to realisation is short.

03

Wording

Different objectives each require their own individual language of form in order to successfully position recognisable attitudes.

04

Execution

Applied and shaped to your personal needs, the execution of what we have developed reflects a unique solution that makes you and your project successful.

Our Clients

Our expertise, matured nationally and internationally over decades, is multifaceted and at your disposal – whether for orientation after an active career in professional sport, for personal positioning in and after a relationship, for a change of career and new direction, or for changes that require increased attention.

As a trusted helper in many of life's situations, we accompany you credibly and find the place where you can happily settle – of course also as a BOOK agent if you wish to make your mark as a writer.

Our Goal

Our goal is to develop you on your path and in your personality to be unrivalled and unique – in self-perception, public image and the necessary communication, in which your values can always be read.

This requires a stable foundation of trust in the intended partnership and a shared set of values of decency. If these parameters match, we will prepare an individual offer for you so that your personal success comes within reach.

A network at star level

Stars & Communication

Personalities from our network whom we accompany with appreciation – at star level, with enjoyment and in harmony with the planet.

Alexander Grüner

Alexander Grüner

A guarantor of holistic success concepts for gastronomy & hospitality.

Innovative mentor of up-and-coming personalities in fine dining.

Harmoniser of different trades to achieve set goals.

Crisis & Liaison Management

Patrick Bittner

Patrick Bittner

The marathon star among the exceptional talents of the palate.

Only a few have achieved such a long history at Michelin-star level and stayed as fit as a running shoe.

To this day, the Frankfurt chef is regarded as one of Germany's calling cards of Francophile cuisine, demonstrating expertise in lasting resilience with a pleasure factor.

Physical & mental performance are his messages, which – always deliciously crafted – ennoble fine porcelain and send international gourmets into raptures. To this day, Patrick Bittner has retained his Michelin star for lasting quality of the highest standard.

The photo was taken at the Frankfurter Hof.

Semi Hassine

Semi Hassine

For the adopted Hattingen local and TV chef, the Ruhr area is not enough.

Lively, surprising and warm-hearted, he loves it crispy from the oven. The pan works too – as long as it is delicious and truly awesome.

Socially engaged and rooted in his home region, the Osnabrück native lives out his delightful SEMI's fusion cuisine – between German home cooking and North African heritage – in his restaurant Fachwerk on the historic Untermarkt in Hattingen.

SEMI's book for people who fancy hearty food: honest home cooking reinterpreted, yet so traditional. The new multicultural deliciousness on a crisp 160 pages.

Grillwerkstatt Schurig

Grillwerkstatt Schurig

Sven Schurig, alias Grandmaster Flash, is a certified meat sommelier and BBQ specialist – probably the most versatile man at the fire.

As BBQ world champion, he shares his deep appreciation in his specialist seminars, because respect is the motto of this Upper Lusatia native and adopted Verl resident – extending without compromise from the ingredients to the grilling tools.

5-star BBQ academy & catering with the taste of adventure at star level. Entertaining, educational, extremely likeable and unforgettable.

His BBQ book became a bestseller and is proof of the BBQ trend in Germany.

Assimiou Touré

Assimiou Touré

Sport unites.

As a former Bundesliga professional and scout for young talent, this cheerful Rhinelander looks after active athletes at his home club Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

With many years of experience, Assimiou stands for positive development as a communicator in social fields and as integration officer for holistic prevention at the German Football Association (DFB). He answers the constant discussions about skin colour with a smile and his quote: “White is a colour too!”

Creating opportunities in Germany & Africa, stability and a future in a peacefully united world are the goals of this committed Leverkusen local with Togolese roots.

Brand logo Assimiou Touré

Designed by Olaf Barken, Assimiou's protected brand logo shows his step sequence while dribbling, tracing the initial letter A of his first name.

Hannes Dackweiler

Hannes Dackweiler

At night you could be with me…

There is something poetic about Master JODA, as he is called, being – according to Feinschmecker magazine – one of the 500 best master bakers and confectioners in Germany.

At the Hercules wholegrain mill bakery in Düsseldorf, he and his highly motivated team live out creative phases at night, and by day, as a certified bread sommelier, he belongs to the guild of the most sought-after master craftsmen, trainers and employers.

As an active member of the Society for Prevention, Johannes Dackweiler cares about the truly important things behind good taste and teaches the high art of doing better for lasting quality of life in his seminars. Bioavailable digestibility at Demeter level reflects the multidimensional mission of this exceptional talent at the oven.

Symbolic hands of Johannes Dackweiler – one covered in dark cocoa, one in white flour

Through his symbolic hands, Master Joda, alias Johannes Dackweiler, stands for international understanding and takes a stand against racism.

Fit & Schlank mit Brot

Fit & Schlank mit Brot

“Fit & Slim with Bread” – the joint book by certified bread sommelier Johannes Dackweiler and Germany's leading nutritional physician and bestselling author Professor Dr. Michaela Axt-Gadermann.

Marc Fosh

Marc Fosh

Mallorca's culinary star of refined maritime cuisine.

An Englishman by birth and Mallorcan by choice, Marc Fosh and his wife Iris, with her Westphalian power, are passionate ambassadors of Balearic cuisine and as much a part of the island as the Puig Major and Palma Cathedral.

Regional ingredients convey a deliciously measured respect for nature and the people of these islands, by sea or by land. “FOSH – a holiday for the palate” is the motto of this powerful duo and their team.

His book is a manifesto of Mallorca and, at the same time, the culinary calling card of the Balearic Islands.

Dr. Bernhard Leben

Dr. Bernhard Leben

For a doctor, his name (“Leben” means “life”) is almost too good to be true – but it is real.

Highly knowledgeable, goal-oriented and with a charming undertone, he explains the world of health and, as a specialist in radiology, nutritional medicine and pain therapy, is a “walking encyclopaedia” with entertainment value.

Together with star chef Anthony Sarpong, he develops new concepts for more quality of life and enjoyment in everyday life, because prevention is nicer than repair, says Dr. Leben, whose name says it all.

SPIRULI

SPIRULI

Planet-friendly enjoyment and holistic joie de vivre, consistently thought through and ecologically packaged.

Balancing, natural, sustainable and truly delicious, it enhances quality of life for all generations.

SPIRULI is more than just a drink: as an official food supplement, it is the regenerative answer for preventive well-being in everyday life and sport.

SPIRULI is unique as the first product of a new species and draws its properties from the source of life. Produced MADE IN GERMANY according to the 4 G.

Oliver Coppeneur

Oliver Coppeneur

Chocolatiers are always seducers.

They play with the reward centre of their fans and therefore bear an extremely high responsibility for body and soul. So does one of the greatest of his craft, Oliver Coppeneur.

His name alone evokes associations of sensual devotion, while the mouth inevitably waters as proof of conched delights and the hand slides, as if guided by magic, into the packaging…

He is a connoisseur of a special kind and enriches in his unique way as a well-travelled adventurer with a guarantee of sustainable enjoyment – always in line with the planet-friendly CODE COPPENEUR.

Mylgia van Uytrecht

Mylgia van Uytrecht

Sounds like the Kingdom of the Netherlands – and that is partly true.

She is probably the best cultural import since Rudi Carrell and, as an eloquent all-rounder between lively presenting, Zumba® Education Specialist and public speaker, demonstrates the versatility of one of the most dazzling personalities in the European media landscape.

Trying to describe her further makes no sense. You have to experience her…

Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls

Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls

Society in the here and now and its chances of success in the future – especially through the contribution of each individual – are his topics for a lastingly functioning collective of US.

Clear, likeable and highly empathetic, he forms a social milestone in our thinking. You have to experience him if you want to move more than most people do today.

His book is a must-read with entertainment value, because after the last page, much is different.

Carsten Rüger

Carsten Rüger

The established authority in financial mediation – who also works without suit and tie, because results are what count.

The language between creatives and financial service providers, with the expectations on both sides, is not always identical – despite speaking the same native tongue.

After 25 years as a banker, Carsten Rüger now works as an independent consultant – a catalyst and problem solver, standing by with the utmost discretion to unite these two worlds prosperously and harmoniously. We know of no one better.

www.guterbanker.deinfo (at) finanzenundmediation.de
The special knife being presented to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Steigenberger ICON Petersberg

This special knife was presented to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at today's Steigenberger ICON Grand Hotel & SPA Petersberg in Königswinter to mark the completion of the general renovation of the former guest house of the German Federal Government, and duly celebrated.

NESMUK Manufactory
Serial number zero of 70

Anthony's Charity – Africa 2.0

“The Basic Law on a Knife's Edge” is the knife with serial number zero of 70, commemorating 70 years of the Basic Law (constitution) of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a symbolic homage to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a rose breeder, with a rosewood handle.

This limited special knife, conceived by Olaf Barken and made by the NESMUK manufactory, served as the foundation for Anthony's Charity e.V. and the founding of a girls' school in Ghana anthonys.charity

Andreas Adenauer

Andreas Adenauer

LOVE – FAITH – HOME. There is no other way to describe him briefly.

His family name is certainly inseparably linked to Germany's history through his grandfather Konrad. Yet Andreas is something that is found less and less in today's society.
A person with visions and values.

Andreas carries them before him like a calling card and protective shield, a mirror of his soul. When he suddenly appears, he gives those around him stature and attention – so strong are his positive aura and his inspiring commitment.

His convictions bear witness to an all-embracing love of creation and respect for nature. As a planet-friendly business coach and mentor, he does not merely accompany people – he is a beacon and a harbour for those who have not lost faith in a better future created in the here and now.

The Düsseldorf city moat with plane trees and arched bridgeDUESSEL AQUA in 0.25 l and 0.75 l glass bottles

DUESSEL AQUA

The fine 5-star mineral water from one of the most popular cities in the world.

It is soft and distinctive, and suitable for preparing baby food.

This unique mineral water from the deep water-bearing layer of the DUESSEL valley in the Bergisches Land was developed by Wuppertal-born Olaf Barken and, alongside its vertical brand logo, bears the coat of arms of DUESSELdorf – probably the most beautiful “village” (Dorf) on the DUESSEL.

Olaf Barken handed this brand over to the Haaner Felsenquelle spring and ensured that, for years now, part of the revenue has been donated to the charity Sterntaler e.V. in DUESSELdorf to support families in need and their children.

Vertical brand logo and DUESSELdorf coat of arms on the DUESSEL AQUA label

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Welcome to the Barkenhof

Well-being and appreciation are the ingredients of life

Living holistically in and with nature in harmony always gives you something good to carry you through life.

Claudia & Olaf Barken look forward to meeting you

Your Kick-off Meeting

Arrange your kick-off meeting by appointment or visit us in person to get to know each other – and become part of our strong community of specialists. We look forward to meeting you!

Olaf Barken

Breberener Straße 14 · 52538 Selfkant-Saeffelen

management (at) bleibeschoen.de

Please note: we are not available for “greenwashing” beyond reality and kindly ask you not to contact us if that is your intention.