Hanna has always been a passionate artist. Since childhood, animals have been the favorite motifs in Hanna's world. In addition to her paintings, she used a self-made screen printing machine (before Ligarti) to print shirts and sell them at street festivals and to friends and friends of friends. This was well received. Even by Alex. Hanna met him during her philosophy studies and fell in love with him (in a friendly way). Together, the idea of turning this hobby into something bigger took shape.

This initially led to “Animal Hoarding” – Hanna’s little animal world on T-shirts, art prints and postcards. After the first fairs it was clear – there was potential here! But as life sometimes goes: Alex moved to Valencia in Spain. Hanna bought an old fire engine, a surfboard and travelled through Portugal. So much for that. Let’s jump forward in time about a year and many hours of sunshine: “Animal Hoarding” had been a nice side job up until then. The positive feedback encouraged the two to come back to Germany and turn their passion into a real business. Enter Sami: He himself lived in Valencia for many years and travelled to every country as a model – except for Kyrgyzstan and North Korea perhaps – and he too liked the idea and made his way back to Wuppertal.