Arriving beyond your own target!
What do you tell an audience about yourself when you only have four minutes?
Beatrice Müller, master goldsmith and jewelry designer, fascinated the audience with her speech about the true meaning of jewelry. This won her the title at the international Speaker Slam World Championship, an event organized every year by top speaker Hermann Scherer. After New York, Vienna, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and Munich, this time the competition took place in Berlin on September 18, 2020. With 73 participants, a new world record was set. The Speaker Slam is a speaker competition. While people compete in rhyming or rapping at poetry slams, at speaker slams they compete against each other with their personal topics. The event stands out with a variety of content that is as colorful and diverse as life itself. The professional jury, which includes speakers and speech experts themselves, selects a winner from all the participants. Shortening a presentation in this way and still saying everything that is important is the pinnacle of professional speaking.
Craftsmanship becomes art – art comes from skill.
Jewelry has always had the power to make the inside visible to the outside. For years, Beatrice Müller has been committed to ensuring that jewelry is more than just a decorative accessory. Her task was to convey this view to a broad audience in four minutes. It was about touching hearts and conveying information at the same time. The lightness of being, doing and even talking about it on stage shows the many facets of her personality. FacetCut is therefore also the new name in Beatrice Müller’s repertoire, which Kerstin Scherer, Hermann Scherer’s wife, gave her in November.
Over 20,000 handcrafted objects are on display in her own studio and museum in the Ziegler Villa in Stein near Nuremberg. Beatrice Müller likes to talk about her stories and impulses, which she then makes tangible at the work table and beyond. With an open attitude and a lot of imagination towards new ideas that can arise at any time, she is right in the middle of life. She has already received several awards for her attention to detail. She also received the prestigious Platinum Award from the Platinum Guild Germany. Her feathered pins, the antennae, created for September 11, can even be admired in New York.
Bans are stones in the vegetable patch.
Beatrice Müller also published and presented her first book that year. Jewelry, design and objects are described from the idea to the creation and realization. It contains themes that capture the spirit of the times: No Stress, Energetics, Paradise, Crazy – Moved Out of Line, 180 Degrees and also Covid 19. They are the template for portability and a formula for dealing with your own motivational quotes, which ensure that what you have experienced can be made visible.
This is the time to give visibility to the invisible in each and every one of us!
However, their motivation is not to win prizes, but to inspire people. Encountering things that life shows in a different way and thus putting a very special kind of jewelry communication out into the world – this attitude is important to her. There are many different ways to communicate. You don’t always need words, but you always need a connection, says the designer. “Jewelry shows from the outside who is behind it. Especially now, in times of invisibility and cold, it’s important to get your message out there and not let your emotions disappear behind a mask. It is so incredibly important right now that we get through the pandemic positively and with a smile.”