| Laura Kampf | |||||||
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| Born | Anna Laura Kampf 15 August 1983 Wiehl, Germany | ||||||
| Spouse | Corinne Brinkerhoff | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
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| Genre | DIY | ||||||
| Subscribers | 816,000 [1] | ||||||
| Total views | 90 million [1] | ||||||
| Associated acts | Simone Giertz | ||||||
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Last updated: September 2022 | |||||||
Laura Kampf (born Anna Laura Kampf [2] 15 August 1983) is a German YouTuber, designer, and craftswoman. She refers to herself as a "maker". Her content primarily focuses on DIY build projects.
Kampf was born in Wiehl, Germany [3] on 15 August 1983. [4] [5] Her father was an advertiser and her mother was a housewife. [6] After high school, Kampf studied design in college, after initially training as a media designer. [7]
Based in Cologne, Kampf began making YouTube videos on her eponymous channel in 2015. [8] On her channel, Kampf has built many projects, including butcher block side tables, [9] a side-car for her bicycle made from a beer keg, [10] a bike trailer made from second-hand wheelbarrows, [11] a yakitori grill made from a repurposed I-beam, [12] and a grill made from a toolbox. [13]
Kampf has frequently collaborated with YouTuber Simone Giertz. She helped Giertz build Truckla, a Tesla Model 3 adapted to be a truck, in 2019. [14] [15] Both women worked with Adam Savage in 2021 to build Mad-Max-style battle cars. [16] In 2022, Giertz's company, Yetch, released their set of Build Dice, co-designed by Giertz and Kampf, to help people come up with new project ideas. [17]
Kampf had worked on the German show Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Show with the Mouse) as a "Maus"-expert and "Do-it-your-self-Frau" (Do-it-yourself woman). [18] [19] She also worked on the show Schrott or Not. [8] In 2020, Kampf was awarded a Goldene Kamera Digital Award in the category, Best of Education & Coaching. [8]
Kampf is married to Corinne Brinkerhoff. [20]
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Laura: My middle name is Laura. Simone: Oh right and your first name is...? Laura: Anna.
[timestamp 7:38] 20. August 1982 […] that's 360 days before I was born
