Daniel Veith
Dr Daniel Veith | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 21st September, 1980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Evelyn Veith |
| Website | danielveith.com |
Daniel Veith (born 21st September 1980) is a German educator, investigator, writer, entrepreneur, and artist. He is the creator of the VEITH Method, and co-founder of VEITH Institut Language Schools, VEITH.TV and the other entities of the VEITH business group, based in Madrid (Spain).
Early life and education
Veith was born in 1980 in Bad Mergentheim, the son of Roland Veith, a high school teacher, and Edith Veith, director of the Department of Health of the provincial administration, and spent his childhood and youth together with a sister and a brother in Tauberbischofsheim, in southern Germany. He took his primary and secondary education in Tauberbischofsheim.
From 2001 to 2003 he studied for his "Magister Artium" (M.A.) in Romance philology, German philology and art history at the University of Würzburg (Germany). This included a five-month exchange scholarship through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Chile in Santiago. During this time and beyond, Daniel Veith travelled extensively throughout South America conducting research for his masters and doctoral theses while also giving tutoring lessons in German to Latin American students. In 2004, he attained the maximum grade in his M.A. after just 3 semesters; something that would normally take 9 to 12. The year 2006 saw him achieve his PhD at the University of Würzburg with an "outstanding" final grade..[1]
University career
At the age of 20, Veith did his civil service working as a receptionist in the Tauberbischofsheim hospital, and participated as an operating room assistant in all kinds of surgical interventions, by exceptional authorization of the hospital’s medical director.
In 2004, after obtaining his M.A., he served first as lecturer of Romance linguistics at the University of Würzburg, tutoring foreign students in German and preparing Latin American students for German university entrance exams, and later as German lecturer at the University "Filadélfia" (UNIFIL), at language schools and with private students in Londrina / Paraná (Brazil), applying the VEITH Method for the first time at the institutional level.
In 2005, Veith began working as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Stern.
From 2007 to 2011, he was Lecturer of German language and linguistics at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
=Entrepreneur years
In 2010, Daniel Veith set up the independent film production company Illusomnia Productions in Salamanca. Filming began later that same year on the feature film "Dawn in Sodom" on 21st century immigration. In conjunction with this project, the image consultancy Top Image Factory, and the advertising and event organization agency Creatention were established.[2]
In 2012, during the economic crisis, Veith moved to Madrid to establish, together with his future wife Dr. Evelyn Veith, the first VEITH Institut, to support Spaniards in their linguistic and intercultural training to find employment in the German-speaking countries. Up to 2018, more than 5,000 students have been trained there.[3] It was soon followed by the creation of several other business divisions, among them VEITH Zertifikat, and the research department VEITH R+D Agency. 2017 heralded the first broadcast of VEITH.TV, an online television channel featuring lessons and other educational videos[4].4
Writing and publishing
After writing his first novel at 18 years of age, in 2001, t l Veith became one of the first to take advantage of online publishing and E-books, publishing his book in the innovative format of "Internet Happening" through a series of 10 deliveries in PDF, with the participation of readers in the "Vespucc(i)ommunity", a previous form of social networks. In the same independent way, but now as printed books, he published several anthologies of his articles and journalistic reports and the German original and several translations of his film script "Dawn in Sodom".[5]
In 2007, Veith started the online language journal "Mikroglottika - An International Journal of Minority Language Philologies" which was extended the following year in a series of monographic books called "Minority Language Studies" and published by the Swiss academic publisher Peter Lang Publishing, with scientific emphasis on the linguistic and social problems of ethnic minorities and migrant groups.[6]
During his residence at the University of Salamanca in Spain, Veith established the non-profit cultural association "LING / K" dedicated to the research and documentation of minority languages, such as Leonese, Luxemburgish or the mother tongues of European immigrants in the Americas[7].
After creating the first VEITH Institut in Madrid in 2012, Daniel Veith further increased his writing and publishing productivity. To date, he has written and illustrated with his own drawings more than 160 scientific, didactic and literature books. His works have been translated into 8 languages.
Artistic activities
With the shooting of his feature film “Dawn in Sodom”, Daniel Veith has found cinema as the sum of all the artistic expressions to which he dedicates himself:
Daniel Veith has been drawing since his childhood. After starting at the age of 5 with hundreds of pages of Donald Duck comic strips, he continued to develop his artistic talent with cartoons, architectural settings and photorealistic portraits, in addition to creating his own comic book character called Detlef. Throughout his youth, he regularly presented his works in solo exhibitions in various cities in Germany and won several national art prizes.
In the mid-90s, he began his career as a professional photographer, devoting much of his travels across all continents to take hundreds of thousands of slides and – since 2003 – digital photographs, selling the pictures to newspapers and magazines and organizing tours with slide shows in Germany[8]
Philanthropy
Daniel Veith, together with his wife Evelyn Veith, has created the VEITH Foundation for Education, Language and Integration, with the objective t to renew and promote European education as a foundation of the cultural heritage of the Old Continent[9]
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