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Artistic & Professional Career

During his school years, Tom Stephan held his first own art exhibition ^[1] and gained experience in playing the piano in public ^[2][3][4][5]. He initially moved back to Stuttgart to study Economics B.Sc. at the University of Hohenheim. Alongside his studies, he built up his self-employment and has been a freelance artist since 2021. Since 2022 he has been a freelancer at ArtNight and leads workshops for acrylic painting ^[6]. Tom Stephan donates 10% of the proceeds from the sale of his art to social charities.

For his Master’s in Economics M.Sc. at the University of Bielefeld, he then moved to North Rhine-Westphalia & is involved in voluntary work alongside his studies ^[7][8]. In his mid-twenties, Tom Stephan also began to create art with his language. Since 2023 he has been working as a freelance writer for several agencies ^[9][10]. He writes texts that are a combination of diary entries & slam poetry ^[11], takes on commissioned works and has been regularly publishing contributions ^{[12][13][14][15]} in anthologies since 2023. He improvises partly blind ^[16] in various styles & is a student of the concert pianist Andrej Fadejew since 2023 ^[17]. After his Master’s degree, he intends to do a free doctorate at a chair for business psychology. His main areas of interest are self-actualisation at work, job satisfaction, and new work^[18].

Tom Stephan can now look back on hundreds of works of art created in various art movements ^[19].

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Art exhibitions

2025 | Freizeitzentrum Stieghorst Bielefeld
2024 | 40 works on the subject of portraits Online ^[20]
2016 | Galerie Rathaus Altensteig Altensteig
2013 | Altes Rathaus e.V. Neubulach ^[21]

Publicly exhibited artworks

2022 – 2023 | Ristorante L’Inizio, Stuttgart
seit 2019 | Studierendenwerk, Hohenheim
2018 – 2019 | Bruderhaus Diakonie, Altensteig
seit 2017 | Haus Haeften, Altensteig
seit 2014 | Haus Terwiel, Altensteig
seit 2011 | Landesbausparkasse, Altensteig

Publications

2023 | 1 Work in Sechzehnseiten, Online-Literaturmagazin, Kein Verlag e.V. ^[22]
2023 | 1 Work in Anthologie Hilfe Weihnachten kommt, Verlag Herz und Gold ^[23]
2023 | 2 Works in Neue Literatur, August von Goethe Literaturverlag ^[24]
2023 | 2 Works in Poets of the new World, Verlag Philipp Sperling ^[25]
2023 | 1 Work in Jahrbuch 2023, Frankfurter Bibliothek ^[26]
2023 | 2 Works in Ukraine: Blau & Gelb, Edition Dorante ^[27]
2023 | 4 Works in Kunst-Kultur-Literatur Magazin, Online ^[28]

Memberships

seit 2023 | Bundesverband junger Autoren und Autorinnen e.V.
seit 2022 | Young Professional Network der deutschen Gesellschaft für Personalführung

Newspaper articles & interviews

2023 | Author profile bei Sechzehnseiten, Online-Literaturmagazin ^[29]
2023 | Autobiographical blog post by Quarterl1fe ^[30]
2023 | Interview in Kunst-Kultur-Literatur Magazin ^[31]
2013 | Newspaper article in Schwarzwälder Bote ^[32]