• Lars Schmidt
• Martin Gemeinholzer

Lars Schmidt

Poet, Performing and Visual Artist, Natural Thinker
Initiator/Facilitator of 'Art, Ecology & Education' /// Personal website: www.passiveactivism.net

Lars has explored the creative process in many different art forms and countries.
He studied acting, dance and singing, as well as photography, in the US and Germany, worked internationally as actor for film, television and theater, as acting coach, photographer, musician/singer/songwriter, filmmaker and poet.

Due to his love for nature and curiousity about personal processes he has been living and working on organic farms in France and Italy, and is engaged in permaculture (diploma in Applied Permaculture Design) and living systems theory for several years.

His main acting coach and mentor, Susan Batson, for whom he has been working as longtime assistant and acting instructor, is one of the most elaborate artists of the artform in the world today, coaching actors like Nicole Kidman or Juliette Binoche.
Other actors and teachers Lars had the pleasure to be studying with in New York are Marcia Haufrecht and Elisabeth Kemp.
All of his former teachers are life-time members of The Actors Studio.

As networker/‘pollinator', he has created an international community/network at the margins of art, (deep) ecological thinking and practical know-how for sustainable living.

His explorations and personal enquiries via the philosophies of taoism, advaita vedanta or zen buddhism inspire his path and practice throughout the contexts of urban/rural/nomadic life.

Lars is a member of the international Ecoartnetwork (www.ecoartnetwork.org)

Martin Gemeinholzer

B.Sc. Agricultural Sciences, Webdesigner, Musician

Martin studied agricultural sciences and worked during and after his university time on several organic farms and communities in Germany and New Zealand. He gained deep knowledge of permaculture principles on the famous Rainbow Valley Farm and later on applied these methods on a vegan-organic gardening project. Now berlin-based he works as a freelance webdesigner. He maintains the AEE-website as administrator.