I am René. In case you’re wondering why there is a picture of 6-year-old me acting out my own, alternative version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on this page, it’s because I’ve been a storyteller (in various shapes and forms) ever since I can remember.

Through Shakespeare and others I came to appreciate early on that a good story, as opposed to the storyteller, never dies. – It lives on through its telling. As a child, I dreamed of becoming someone who keeps those precious, little vessels of human emotions and experiences called “stories” alive and shares them with others.

I made that dream come true. Or rather: I’m still making it come true. Every day, I search for the right medium, the right form, the right way of telling a story.

But one thing I know for sure: when I die, some of the stories will not. Why?

Because someone else will wrap a tablecloth around their shoulders and put leaves on their head to tell them.