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Press articles and interviews
Read through guest articles and interviews from our team as well as press reviews of our projects here. You can find more facts about Stadtmanufaktur in our company profile.
For interview requests or guest articles, please contact sophie.may@stadtmanufaktur.com.
- Nordenham’s City Centre Is Undergoing a Transformation with “Stadtmanufaktur” (Interview with Julia Staron) – Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch – July 24, 2026
- Election Special: Retail / Hospitality (Interview with Sophie May) – Landshuter Zeitung – February 16, 2026
- What will become of Hamburg? Thorsten Kausch and the power of big ideas (Interview with Thorsten Kausch) – Hamburger Abendblatt – July 11, 2025
- How Hamburg’s City Centre Could Be Saved (Interview with Julia Staron) – t-online.de – March 3, 2025
- Vacancies in the city centre – Expert Offers Tips (Interview with Sophie May) – Schwäbische Zeitung – May 15, 2024
- SWR Aktuell Rhineland-Palatinate (Interview with Thorsten Kausch) – August 21, 2023
- How City Centres of the Future Will Become Experiential Spaces (PDF, Interview with Thorsten Kausch) – Public Marketing
- Where Is Place Marketing Headed? (PDF, Interview with Thorsten Kausch) – Public Marketing – July/August 2017
Guest contributions (in German)
- Brands as Shapers of Public Spaces (Guest Column by Sophie May) – Public Marketing – November/December 2024
- Mobilizing a City’s Inner Strengths (PDF, guest article by Thorsten Kausch – Public Marketing – July/August 2022)
- How to: Resilient City Centres (PDF, guest article by Thorsten Kausch and Sophie May) – Public Marketing – April 2022
- Identity as the Foundation of a City Brand (PDF, guest article by Thorsten Kausch) – Public Marketing – July/August 2019
- Place Marketing 4.0: Understand, Facilitate, Inspire! (PDF, guest article by Thorsten Kausch) – Public Marketing – December 2017
Reports on our projects (in German)
- Future Project for the City Centre of Bad Reichenhall – bad-reichenhall.de – 2026
- Funding for Nordenham City Projects: How the Discretionary Fund Is Expected to Help – Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch – July 1, 2026
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Community Workshop: New Solutions to Vacancies in Downtown Nordenham – Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch – June 30, 2026
- Pinneberg’s City Centre Under Scrutiny: Where It Shines—and Where It Falls Short – shz – April 16, 2026
- Restaurants and Retail in Quickborn: Experts Say What’s Missing – shz – April 14, 2026
- Public Forum on the Olympic Bid: Lots of Discussion, Little Criticism – ndr.de – Nov. 19, 2025
- Olympic Bid: City of Hamburg Launches Public Dialogue Campaign – ndr.de – November 2, 2025
- Professional Place Marketing for Walldorf – Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung – February 12, 2025
- Walldorf Shines with Its Strengths – walldorf.de – February 5, 2025
- From Events to Vacancy Management—Here’s How Garrel’s Retail Sector Plans to Prepare for the Future – NWZ Online – December 4, 2024
- How Bitburg Residents See Their City (PDF available upon request) – Volksfreund – December 2, 2024
- New Ideas for Holtenauer Straße (PDF available upon request) – Kieler Nachrichten – July 18, 2024
- High-Profile Group: Place Marketing Holds Strategy Workshop – wirsiegen.de – April 10, 2024
- Call for Ideas: How Should Holtenauer Straße Be Developed? – Kieler Nachrichten – March 28, 2024
- Life Returns to Reutlingen’s Galeria Kaufhof Starting in June – Reutlinger General-Anzeiger – March 16, 2024
- Bad Schwartau: New Marketing Strategy Planned in the Battle of the Cities – Lübecker Nachrichten – December 13, 2023
- Gütersloh: Harnessing the City’s Strengths – Neue Westfälische – June 25, 2023
- “Bergedorf Now”: What the New City Managers Have Planned for the City Centre – Hamburger Abendblatt – July 13, 2023
- Fighting Vacancies: Emergency Program Aims to Revitalize Bochumer Straße – Recklinghäuser Zeitung – February 10, 2023
- Recklinghausen Wants to Save “Süd” (PDF available upon request) – WAZ – February 4, 2023
- We’re asking everyone: What makes Osnabrück an attractive and livable place? – Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung – November 26, 2022
- First Bielefeld City Forum: “Sometimes It’s Okay to Just Say No” – Westfalen-Blatt – October 26, 2022
- Bielefeld residents find Klosterplatz dreary and sad—but what can be done? – Neue Westfälische – October 29, 2022
- Results of the Major Opinion Poll: Focus on Menden’s Strengths (PDF) – Lokalkompass – September 21, 2022
- Survey Results: What Menden Residents Love About Their Town – Westfalenpost – September 21, 2022
- Menden as a Brand: All Residents Can Participate in the Survey – Westfalenpost – March 22, 2022
- A Fresh Start for StaRT as It Bids Farewell (PDF) – Schwäbisches Tagblatt – February 1, 2022
- Münster: Walking a Tightrope Regarding the City’s Future – Westfälische Nachrichten – October 1, 2021
- Hamburger Stadtmanufaktur: It’s Not Just About Vacant Properties in Lünen – Lüner Nachrichten – August 2021
- Reutlingen Column: The Ferris Wheel Becomes a Wheel of Ideas (PDF) – Schwäbisches Tagblatt – August 18, 2021
- Reutlingen Summer: Taking Off in Bürgerpark – Schwäbisches Tagblatt – July 2, 2021
- Interim Managing Director for StaRT Reutlingen: Thorsten Kausch to Lead Place Marketing (PDF) – Südwest Presse – May 14, 2021
- Thorsten Kausch Takes the Helm as Interim Managing Director of StaRT (PDF) – Reutlinger General-Anzeiger – March 19, 2021
Our publications (in German)
Our publications as editors and authors on place branding and urban development. Would you like to take a look at one of our books? If so, please feel free to contact us for a free PDF excerpt at sophie.may@stadtmanufaktur.com.
Place Brands
How places become strong brands
Published by:
- Thorsten Kausch (Managing Director of Stadtmanufaktur)
- Peter Pirck (Managing Partner of Brandmeyer Brand Consulting)
- Peter Strahlendorf (Publisher, New Business Verlag)
- Christoph Thoma (Managing Director of Culture Lab)
New Business Verlag (2022)Order the book *
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Cities as brands 2
Challenges and horizons
Published by:
- Thorsten Kausch (Managing Director of Stadtmanufaktur)
- Peter Pirck (Managing Partner of Brandmayer Brand Consulting)
- Peter Strahlendorf (Publisher, New Business Verlag)
New Business Verlag (2017)
Table of Contents
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Cities as brands
Strategy and management
Published by:
- Thorsten Kausch (Managing Director of Stadtmanufaktur)
- Peter Pirck (Managing Partner of Brandmayer Brand Consulting)
- Peter Strahlendorf (Publisher, New Business Verlag)
New Business Publishing (2013)
Thorsten Kausch, Managing Director of Stadtmanufaktur, at the 2021 Real Estate Industry Day hosted by ZIA Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss e.V.
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Sophie May
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