Influencer Yvonne Pferner and Jeremy Grube: Your movie “Yabadu” was created without a script

The vision was great: created a movie, “which is simply the complete opposite of everything you know,” explains content Creatorin Yvonne Pferner (30) in an interview with Spot on News. When she and her friend Jeremy Grube (31) left for their six-month trip to South America, they had more in their luggage than just a thirst for adventure. They looked for hope and answers to a very personal question: “Can you still put children in this world?”

This search for meaning became a drive for “Yabadu – never grown up”, her first movie. Rotated without a script and without a production company. He has been going to cinemas across Germany since May, and from July 8th he will start open-air cinema tour in Cologne.

The travel influencer couple, who got to know each other twelve years ago at the RTLZwei-Daily “Cologne 50667” and has traveled the world together, was unconventional. “We had fixed building blocks that we wanted to focus right from the start. But since we didn’t know which person we were encountering, there was the possibility that we could not implement these points,” explains Grube.

However, this spontaneity was not unusual for the full -time travelers. “Traveling is our great passion – it also felt right to do a bigger project now,” enthuses Pferner. “We knew we needed a film in which everything is collected. The concentrated power of all our thoughts and visions was the core idea.”

Through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, she finally led her route in search of the mystical “Yabadu” – the book of hope. “It was crazy how everything fits when you have no plan. Probably even better than with a plan, because you can’t follow it on the way anyway,” said the actress.

The unplannable also brought her very own challenges. It “constantly underneath”. But the couple confidante on his intuition – and of course there were “many moments when we have reached our limits”, as Grube honestly admits.

After completion of the film – of course on its own – the uncertainties continued. “We had so many conversations, among other things with Netflix, and stood at the point where we had no idea where the film would end up,” reports the musician. The joy over the final path was all the greater: “And then suddenly one came to another and we had an official German movie.” The open -air tour is now another highlight: “To show it again under free sky – where it was created – is of course something very special”.

The decision to tell the story from a child’s perspective was central to the film. The couple wanted to “bring the inner child back and bring back to the viewer”. “This child lives in each of us – but it is often neglected in this fast world”.

With himself, Jeremy Grube discovers “in curiosity. To see a lot in small things and let themselves be euphorized. And above all to go through the world naive and not to have any prejudices, but to meet other people, other cultures and, above all, with open arms again and again.” The confrontation with death in the private environment had only reinforced the desire to give the child more space again. “It is our personal goal to keep the inner child in old age and we believe that we have a fulfilling life,” said Pferner.

In any case, the close binding of Yvonne Horse and Jeremy Grube could not harm the six months in a confined space. The result even exceeded its expectations: “In the end, however, it only brought us closer together. I have the feeling that love after eleven years of relationship continues to grow from day to day.”

Nevertheless, there was a mature, as your partner describes grinning: “We are two people who don’t really argue. But in the van we started to comment on and criticize everything on the other. We both noticed: Now the four square meters are just a bit tight. Then one goes out of the sliding door, one left and half an hour later you meet again and everything is good again.”

The basis for this deep love was laid early. “We have directly connected that we are both open, cheerful and very humorous. We like to laugh, make nonsense and just don’t take ourselves so seriously,” Grube explains about her first moments together on the set of “Cologne 50667”. “The vulnerabilities that one has, adds the other. This is the nice thing for me: I know that we can catch each other well,” adds Pferner.

But only in Van, but the two don’t want to. “We have such a colorful process in our lives, this constant change is beautiful. We want to have seen every country in the world once – that is, we still have a lot ahead of us. But our base remains in Germany,” explains Horse her plans. “I couldn’t just stay at home, but I couldn’t just be traveling.”

After all, the durability at home is also nice: “We miss the most on the way that everything is just good. That you are simply in one place and come to rest and meet family and friends”. In the meantime, the couple are careful not to constantly film themselves and are on the road most of the time without a cell phone and camera. Grube emphasizes: “But of course it is still a huge part that we film. You shouldn’t talk that smaller than it is. But we definitely always try to create a balance. It was different, but now we are increasingly paying attention to it.”

Of course, their on social media also want to be entertained – and therefore the plans for the next projects are already underway. “The list is endlessly long. We could imagine creating part two of ‘Yabadu’ in the near future. Last week, we actually suddenly came up with the right idea,” says Pferner.

“We were on the road in nature and rumblilosophized – and then one came to the other and we thought that would be such a great connection,” adds her friend. “But first keep standing still. We stay in the here and now.”