Butterbrot,
Maldives
& Evian Water

Hey,

Today is German Butterbrot Day.

I write to you as someone occasionally known as Kuchenopa (cake grandpa). So I do have some standing in the field of baked carbs.

I'll also use this occasion to send you new work I created on private islands, expedition ships or in studios.

I did three hospitality campaigns in two years. Either I've found a niche, or the niche has found me. At some point the difference stops mattering.

01 — RECENT WORK

02 — THE BLOG GOES PUBLIC

New Regular · Behind the Scenes

I'm bloggin'

Years of shoot notes, now indexed and public.

Expect gossip, BTS imagery and, where available, celebration cake: scanned in 3D, then eaten. In that order. The archive has standards.

There are also statistics nobody requested.

jenssage.com/bts

03 — BERLIN / CICLOPE

Oct 6–8 · Berlin · Ciclope 2026

Let's meet
at Ciclope in Berlin

I'll be at Ciclope Festival, October 6–8.

At the old venue I had developed a reasonably sophisticated system involving the best barista, the shortest coffee queue and exactly how late one could arrive at a talk.

New venue. Years of institutional knowledge, gone. This is how empires fall, and also how festivals grow.

If you're in Berlin, message me and we'll rebuild the system together over coffee. Or Evian water. I have no preference. Officially.

And since you've made it this far into a newsletter that opened with Butterbrot: if you're staying in Mitte, get your fix at SOFI. Consider it my contribution to your Ciclope itinerary.

For further carb-related Berlin recommendations, just ask. As Kuchenopa, I dispense glutenous advice freely and without warranty.

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