Celina: nine crafts, one quiet room in Soldiner Kiez
A film-school graduate who made props for television, now teaching bookbinding, stained glass and straw stars out of her own studio on Koloniestraße.
Most people who run a craft studio arrived at it from one craft. Celina Schmidt arrived from about six, and none of them started in a studio.
She has a Bachelor of Engineering in audiovisual media and a Master of Arts in filmmaking. She spent years in the art departments of film and television productions as a graphic prop maker — which is a job that quietly demands you be able to make almost anything, convincingly, by Thursday. Somewhere alongside that she has been structuring and designing educational content for a wide range of subjects and clients, and she still works as a travel coordinator, leading international tours and coming back with ideas.
That is an unusual CV for a workshop teacher, and it shows up in the two places it matters: the range of things she can teach, and how well the teaching is put together.
The studio
Studio Gestaltwandel opened in 2025, but not from nothing — it grew out of several workshop formats that had already been running successfully for more than two years. The new space on Koloniestraße simply gave them room to multiply.
There are two rooms. A large, bright one for group workshops, and a dedicated artisan’s space for the finicky work — stained glass and tile-making, the crafts that want their own bench and their own mess. It sits in the calm middle of Soldiner Kiez, a few minutes from U8 Osloer Straße or S1/S25 Wollankstraße.
She also rents the space out to other makers, which is the kind of thing people do when they remember needing a room themselves.
Nine things you can make there
Paper and print. Bookbinding is the anchor: notebooks to use as a zine, a journal or a sketchbook, and softcover books with an open spine (€59, 3 hours) or the fuller notebook binding (€69, 3.5 hours). Envelope folding needs no glue at all — paper, a few folds, and you have envelopes in minutes. Stamp carving (€50, 2.5 hours) sends you home with your own little rubber stamps.
Glass, stone and metal. Stained glass soldering teaches the traditional Tiffany technique with copper foil and lead, and you leave with a flat artwork or a three-dimensional object. Mosaic tile making (€89, 4.5 hours) turns ceramic or glass into coasters or wall pieces. Tile making casts a coloured tile from concrete. Tin ornament crafting is embossed tin paper, the way vintage ornaments were made.
Cloth and straw. Silk painting is for anyone who has ever wanted to design their own scarf. And strawstar crafting (€59, 2 hours) is the oldest thing on the list — straw ornaments have been hanging in German windows and on German Christmas trees for centuries, and they are much harder than they look.
No experience is needed for any of them. Sessions run in German and English.
For a team
Every format also runs as a private group session on a date of your choosing — up to twenty people in the studio, and fifty to a hundred if she brings it to you. Two to four hours, so it fits an afternoon rather than eating a day.
It is a good fit for the kind of team event where half the room is quietly dreading a team event. Nobody has to be good at this. You cut the glass, or you fold the paper, or you bind the spine, and three hours later there is an object that did not exist when you arrived.
Book Celina
Tell us the date, the headcount and roughly what you'd like to make, and we'll put it together with her.
Her open sessions are on the Twiggli calendar if you would rather come as one person on a Saturday. That works too — it is the same room either way.