Laura Kampf

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Laura Kampf
Personal information
Born
Anna Laura Kampf

(1983-08-15) 15 August 1983 (age 41)
Wiehl, Germany
Spouse Corinne Brinkerhoff
Website www.laurakampf.com
YouTube information
Channel
GenreDIY
Subscribers824,000 [1]
Total views100.8 million [1]
Associated acts Simone Giertz
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers

Last updated: September 2024

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.

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

Kampf is married to Corinne Brinkerhoff. [20]

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