Come On Jesper Steinmetz
Lecture with Jesper Steinmetz in Middelfart  7.may 2012

He has a voice that makes you want to hear more - you can tell from the way he acts that he is used to be on the camera. Which he is - especially when he shows the three things he never travels without: two phones; a Danish and an American, a microphone head with TV2 on so he can report to TV2 everywhere, all the time, and some makeup, also so he always is ready to go on television.  Because he goes on television often to report everything that happens in USA. Not only to report the big story, but as he says also to report the small story. He chooses the story, just as he has chosen that he wants to go to all states before his four years long period ends, which he is half through now. He shows a clip he has made to tell one of the small stories, a story he heard about because his secretary had read about it in a family magazine, about a woman who is teaching at a school where the children came hungry to school and stole ketchup to make soup of when they came home. So she decided that no child should ever come hungry to school, and she changed the school so it not only is a school but also a “helping central.”  Where people can donate clothes to the people who needs it, and the children and their families who doesn’t have money enough can get food. As he says himself; he doesn’t like the thing about saying that he has made a difference, but in some way have the thing that he reported the story to Denmark made a difference. Because people in Denmark contacted the women and wanted to donate money.

Jesper likes to report from USA and he likes to interview the American people because they are all good at television and they all likes to be at television, what he tells in a funny way so you can’t avoid laughing.

Almost everyone in there laughed at least one time I am sure, because he told many stories with a funny angle. The things he didn’t told with a funny angle he told with so much enthusiasm so if anyone had any doubt he deleted it right away, this man likes his job. He wants to be where it happens, and he wants to tell the big story. In the start he wanted to be a dentist, but his parents though it was a terrible idea. So he wanted to write about films, but an article at page 16 wasn’t enough for Jesper Steinmetz, he wanted to write the big stories. So he does know, in the big country. Where he wants to stay a few more years but never to live permanent, while he would miss the esthetic Danish sense.   

-          Christina.