Andreas Pavel

Andreas Pavel ( born in 1945 in Aachen ) is a German philosopher and inventor.

At the age of six years, the son of an industrialist and an artist emigrated with his parents to Brazil. Pavel grew up in São Paulo and studied mid-1960s, philosophy and sociology in Berlin. Then he returns to Brazil, where he at the television station TV Cultura an activity in the training department ( Divisão de Ensino ) recorded. A trip to Europe in 1972 was the trigger for first reflections on the development of a portable hi- fi system. In the Hi -Fi Fair 1976 in Dusseldorf he wore representatives of Philips and Sony its plans without this signaled interest.

Pavel settled first in 1974 from Sao Paulo to New York City in 1976 to Milan to and reported in March 1977, his concept of a pocket stereo with headphones in Italy as a patent. In 1978 the application at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich and in the U.S., UK and Japan. In 1979, Sony Walkman on the market and thus landed a worldwide success. As Pavel 1980 tried to be manufactured his invention under the name Stereobelt in Italy, he could not prevail with them. Since Sony refused any cooperation with him, he first successfully fought in 1986 royalties in the amount of DM 150,000 for models that were sold in Germany in the early 1980s.

Pavel ruined financially in a copyright complaint that he had filed in 1989 against the Group in England. In 1996, the case was closed and Pavel made ​​to bear the court costs in the amount of 3 million U.S. dollars. Only after Pavel threatened to pursue additional actions in other countries, drew Sony in 2003 after the death of longtime Sony boss Akio Morita a and referred to him in 2004 an amount was agreed not to disclose. At this time, Pavel worked in Milan as a cultural manager. Later he supported the career of Brazilian flutist Altamiro Carrilho and worked on the collection of all ever published in Brazil music recordings.