Peter Wittkamp, born in 1981, is a freelance gag writer, author, copywriter and consultant in the field of online communication. He has worked for many years as the first author for the online presence of the satirical show heute-show; he has also written for Late Night Berlin or Neo Magazin Royale.

For years, he was the copywriter and idea generator for the #weilwirdichlieben campaign of the Berlin transport company BVG, which won numerous prizes and awards. With irony and wit, he helped ensure that Berliners actually won their local transport a little more dear. He gained his experience in advertising as one of the first employees at the Berlin agency TLGG. Before that, he was a market researcher for the music company Universal Music.

From time to time he writes. For example, for Zeit Online and in the Berliner Tagesspiegel. Or a book. Most recently, he wrote a very honest and humorous book about his obsessive-compulsive disorder entitled “Für mich soll es Neurosen regnen”. In addition, together with Opinary founder Pia Frey, he designed the conspiracy theory generator “Desinformator”, which deals with the subject in an entertaining and ironic way.

Peter Wittkamp lecture topics

• Irony as a strategy: How does one work with humor?
• How does the award-winning campaign of the BVG work?
• What can we learn from Berlin’s public transport companies?
• Creative and funny. How does it work?
• How do you communicate successfully on the web? – How do I turn my greatest weakness into a strength?
• Mental Health

Through his very personal experiences and insights, he loves to talk about Mental Health and also what companies can improve in this area. He also talks about everything that has to do with humor or creativity and also likes to present the secrets of success of the BVG campaign. He likes to deal with serious and important topics, but always delivers them with a little wink and never dryly.

Together with Andreas Loff, he runs the podcast “Außer Tresen nix gewesen,” in which the two of them take a whimsical and entertaining look at life’s big issues. He also publishes the biweekly newsletter “Wittkamps Woche” on Steady. He tweets to around 63,000 followers as @diktator, but now almost prefers to post on Instagram. In total, more than 100,000 people follow him on social media.

His favorite quote comes from Karl Valentin and describes his way of working and his life quite aptly: “Every thing has three sides, one positive, one negative and one funny.”