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Thorsten Keller

Thorsten Keller

Hamburg-based founder of Coffee Table Mags, an online and physical shop for independent magazines, and freelance media/prepress designer; also an IT-manager who became paraplegic after a cycling accident in Tuscany in 2024.

Aug 29, 2026

13:09
So tell us a bit more about the space.
13:12
The space is a shop in a shop.
13:14
It's part of a fashion store, which is also the main house of a Hamburg fashion brand.
13:21
It's called Thomas E. Punkt.
13:23
They've been there since the 80s, I would say, and they produce mainly all their things still in Hamburg.
13:28
And then three years ago, they were... thinking about rearranging the whole house and they want to have their own cafe and then they were asking me because as I told you one of my passion is also coffee I would say magazines and coffee they my heart is divided in these two sides so that we were talking they asked me like can we put a rack with your magazines in that cafe and sell them and then we were talking talking in the end I moved there completely and now I'm there in the fourth floor it's Not the biggest space, but that's what I really like.
14:02
Like a really compact, but beautiful, curated, selected place.
15:58
But tell us, do you also sell some German titles there?
25:04
hoch.
25:04
Das mache ich ja alles ohne Motor und bin da eins, zwei, drei, vier Mal zum vierten Mal jetzt da hochgestrampelt.
25:16
Und habe mir beim vierten Aufstieg gedacht, naja, jetzt ist Zeit, jetzt könntest du auch nach Hause rollern.
25:25
Und tatsächlich wäre es auch möglich gewesen, ohne den Peak mitzunehmen, den höchsten Punkt, einfach so von drei Viertel des Berges nach unten zu rollern.
25:39
Nicht mein Anspruch.
25:41
Also nochmal hoch.
25:44
Und oben dann in dem Einstieg, der ist tricky.

31 MINS LATER

57:12
Genau, also

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