Summary
Bert Herfen is a veteran filmmaker, editor and publisher who has run the long-standing Rhine-focused portal Rheintal.de since 1996 and built the accompanying RheintalTV YouTube channel with over 200 films and 15,500 subscribers. With more than four decades of dedicated media collection along the Rhine and 10+ years of continuous digital publishing experience, he blends deep regional expertise with documentary storytelling. His body of work includes over 200 documentaries, training films and shorts produced for public and private broadcasters, and field shoots spanning three continents. A trained photo-engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) who has taught film production and editing, he also provides cutting, sound production and web development services from his own studio. Technically fluent in modern web tools (NuxtJS, Vuetify, NodeJS, Directus) he bridges traditional filmmaking craft with contemporary digital publishing. Unusually for a regional publisher, his archive traces the Rhine from its Swiss sources to the Dutch mouths, making his platform a unique audiovisual repository of the river and its communities.
10 years of coding experience
Dipl. Ing., Photoingeneurwesen, Dipl. Ing., Photoingeneurwesen at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
German, English