Press and interviews
Kathlen Bremer. Entrepreneur, founder, PR and marketing strategist. Germany and Turkiye.
She founded her first company at 25. Today she leads three companies across marketing, communications and public relations, with around ten people on her team and two offices in Germany. Her business base remains German. A growing share of her work is run from Turkiye.
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Interviews, TV, podcasts, speaking engagements, panels, expert commentary, background briefings
Companies
People on the team
Age at first company
The companies
Marketing strategy and planning first: positioning, audiences, channels, budgets and what each measure is meant to achieve. Execution follows from that plan and covers digital communications, social media, websites and ongoing consulting. Operates under the MarketingLeaders brand.
The exclusive arm, built specifically for executives. Interview formats around the person at the top, media presence for founders and owners, and strategic visibility where the individual carries the company's reputation.
PR, media presence and strategic communications for companies rather than individuals. Founded with a business partner she had already worked with for years, and run jointly with him.
Expertise
Interviews, panels, expert commentary and written contributions, in German or English. Available in Germany, in Turkiye and online.
Three companies, around ten people and two offices in Germany, managed to a growing extent from Turkiye. What has to be true operationally before a founder's location stops being a problem, and where remote leadership quietly fails.
After four and a half years of regular stays and a house in Yalikavak since May 2026, the business question is becoming concrete. Where German and Turkish companies could work together, and what each side underestimates about the other.
Unpaid invoices, legal disputes, difficult business relationships, self-doubt and the points at which giving up looked reasonable. Why that experience is what makes her useful to other founders.
She would rather earn nothing on a project than sell a client something that will not help them. What that costs in the short term, and why long-term client value beats a signed contract.
People increasingly get an answer without ever clicking a search result. What that changes about how companies write, structure and prove their content if they want to be quoted by AI systems.
Building a business in a male-dominated industry, being told it was too risky and too early, and what a non-linear path teaches about which risks are actually worth taking.
Business at a glance
organic views
Across client projects, without paid distribution behind them.
hires
Filled from several hundred applications, in sectors where job listings had stopped delivering candidates.
years average client relationship
One client has stayed since her first year in business. Her companies work without long lock-in contracts.
years of regular stays in Turkiye
A rented house in Bodrum and Yalikavak since May 2026. Germany remains the business base.
Reporting exported from a regional client campaign, not a sample file.
Client names available on request. Figures verified against platform reporting.
The story
Since her teens, Kathlen Bremer has known long stretches of very little sleep. For years, a few hours a night was normal for her, while her companies, her team and her responsibilities kept growing.
When she moved into the rented house in Bodrum and Yalikavak in May 2026, something happened that would sound unremarkable to most people. During one of her first nights there, she slept more than eight hours straight.
I could not remember the last time I had slept eight hours straight.
Her own connection to the country
Her first personal connection to Turkiye came through a relationship at the time. Over the years it turned into a connection of her own: the people, the mentality, the food, the energy and a willingness to help that keeps drawing her back.
Cesme and Istanbul
On a holiday in Cesme she was bitten on the leg by a dog and could barely walk. Shortly afterwards, in Istanbul, she had to cross an eight-lane road. Strangers noticed that she needed help and walked her to the other side.
I did not discover that willingness to help in some perfect holiday moment. I experienced it when I genuinely needed help.
Press material
Two approved biographies and press photographs. No permission request needed for editorial use, a mention of the source is enough.
Short bio, 50 words
Kathlen Bremer is a German entrepreneur and PR and marketing strategist. A national champion in four-discipline competition as a teenager, she founded her first company at 25 and today leads three companies with around ten people and two offices in Germany. She runs a growing share of her work from Turkiye.
Full bio, 150 words
Kathlen Bremer competed as a teenager in four-discipline competition, show jumping, dressage, running and swimming, and became a German national champion. After school, a commercial apprenticeship and several years in corporate roles, she founded her first company at 25. Today she leads three businesses across marketing, communications and public relations: Ma.Le Solutions GmbH, PR-Leaders GmbH & Co. KG and Headline Communications GmbH. Around ten people work on her team, alongside two offices in Germany. Because her companies are organised digitally, teams, client projects and daily operations can be managed across borders. For roughly four and a half years she has been spending time in Turkiye, and in May 2026 she rented a house in Bodrum and Yalikavak. Germany remains her business base. She knows the harder side of entrepreneurship first-hand: unpaid invoices, legal disputes and decisions nobody wants to make.
Press photographs
Right-click to save. Credit: Kathlen Bremer. Print-resolution files on request.
Portrait
At work
Client event
Turkiye
Press and interviews
Write directly. Interview requests, speaking enquiries, expert commentary and background conversations are usually answered within one working day. Available for interviews, TV, podcasts, speaking engagements, panels, profiles and background briefings.
kathlen@ma-le.de
Interviews
In person in Germany, in Turkiye, or online
Languages
German, English