Hi, I'm Paul. You might know me because I took some pictures of Die Toten Hosen, Marteria or other famous people. Or because I spent a night in Rio with soccer players. Or because I captured a couple of titles in F1.
I'm a 43-year-old German content creator, digital storyteller and Berufsjugendlicher based in Newport Beach, California where I live with my wife Theresa and our three children. I also have a podcast where I chat once a week with changing guests about my life and their lives. I do clothing called PARI (which are my initials...) and I cook in the RIPKYTCHEN.
In the last few years, I've developed close and growing partnerships with brands like Porsche, whoop, AMEX, IWC, Schwalbe or the german Rügenwalder Mühle.
It started as a gag in 2019 and has now become one of my most important projects: PARI, my little clothing brand. PA as in Paul and RI as in Ripke.
And PARI is supposed to convey what I've been lucky enough to live since moving to the US: Californian lifestyle, ease, life on the Pacific, lots of sun and rather less rain 🙂
It all started with clothes that I like to wear on a daily basis: shorts, hoodies and powels (towel meets Paul). Now you can also find shirts, caps, crewnecks, swimming trunks, shirts and jackets. All of which I designed in Newport Beach, California. Is crafted with love in Turkey. And shipped from the center of Germany.
Alle Wege führen nach Ruhm is my podcast where every week I call a person from my phone book to chat about their mostly inspirational career paths. In addition, my two regular guests Chris Nanoo and Karo Kauer regularly check in. We talk about what's been going on in their lives and mine, what's coming up, and what will happen.
There's also an episode of "Post from Paul" every weekend. My personal tips from California that make smart people a little cooler - and cool people a little smarter!
The RIPKYTCHEN is the home of all my cooking projects. Together with my wife Theresa, we cook and create dishes that suit our life here in California: Family style, clean and unprocessed, and largely plant-based. Theresa is the brains behind the recipes, I'm the show-off in front of the camera ;)
RIPKYTCHEN produces magazines, videos and, of course, the TRIPKYTCHEN book.
TRIPKYTCHEN CALIFORNIA.
Our cookbook & travel guide with 100 recipes and 180 travel tips from the Golden State. With this book, we want to share our personal favorite places with you. Here you'll find exactly the hotels and restaurants, bars and running routes, highlights and shopping tips that we recommend to our best friends when they visit us. But that's not all - we've also taken home 10 typical dishes from each place and turned them into recipes in the RIPKYTCHEN. And for each of the 100 recipes there is a video in which I explain how to prepare them.
I've been and still am on the road a lot - and in my travel app TRIPKY I reveal my absolute favorite places & activities around the world. In the categories "Stay", "See", "Drink", "Eat", "Move" and "Shop", you can find insider tips from me or my friends from over 40 cities.
There's also an episode of "Post from Paul" every weekend. My personal tips from California that make smart people a little cooler - and cool people a little smarter!
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Since 2023 I can call Porsche my partner. "Why Paul Ripke?" - Basti Schramm, CMO of Porsche, and I tried to answer this question at OMR 2024. You can watch the presentation in full HERE on YouTube. In a nutshell: Because we fit together very well - even if not at first glance. Together we created the Porsche Supper Club, an inspiring evening at the Porsche Brand Store. We organized community events around it, played golf together at the European Open, gave lectures at universities, I was a guest on the DREAMERS.ON.AIR. Podcast and even built a pop-up Pari Club House at the Festival of Dreams.
Five years ago, I put whoop on my wrist for the first time - and to date, I've never taken it off!
And two years ago, I became a whoop athlete - well, not really… 'm certainly not a professional athlete, but I'm a pretty ambitious one - and I like to challenge myself. And not only does whoop let me track my training and recovery - whoop gives me essential feedback and recommendations for improvement. With activations like the “Sober October” or my series “OFFBEAT”, I am building a whoop community and together we inspire to simply make better decisions for their fitness and health with whoop.
In 2020, I teamed up with Schwalbe to jointly inspire a new kind of road cycling: In the Schwalbe Souplesse Club, we are bringing people together for whom the passion for road cycling comes first. Not how far or how high :) It's a club for like-minded people who support, motivate and challenge each other. In addition, we have also brought out a few products: tires, jerseys, bibs and caps.
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The Pari Club House (PCH) on the Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach is our store & showroom in the USA. Here we present our latest collections and sell some of our products. We meet regularly for the Run Club and Bike Club. You can also explore Newport Beach with our Super 73 Electric Bikes, which you can rent here!
If you would like to come by, please contact us here.
