When you think of young female entrepreneurs, you probably place them in Berlin, Frankfurt or Hamburg city rather than in the countryside. Rural regions, on the other hand, are often associated with tradition and old role clichés. Prejudices that should have been broken down long ago. Rural areas are full of women who don't care about old role models and make a difference, start their own companies and actively shape their environment and shape it with modern ideas. "The countryside needs women" shows three such women in northern Germany who are setting new impulses with their own companies and creative ideas. The countryside has a decisive advantage over the city: more freedom, less on offer and therefore often more opportunities to realize one's potential. So it was a very conscious decision for Sintje Lorenzen to set up her own business on her home island of Föhr with her own shop. Sintje sells vintage fashion and does upcycling, which means she makes all her fashion from old, already used materials and gives them a second life. She not only wants to counteract the fast fashion trend, but also bring a breath of fresh air to the island's fashion landscape: "When I was young, I always only ordered online, which is catastrophic, but because there was simply nothing else, or we drove to the mainland and did some shopping." Josephine von Hedemann-Heespen has also turned her back on the city and now combines tradition with modernity on the centuries-old Deutsch-Nienhof estate in Westensee, Schleswig-Holstein. At first, she actually only wanted to give her father a little help in the family-owned estate. She has now taken over almost all management and set up her own catering and event area with several employees. Josephine always has new ideas: "There is just so much potential that is still untapped and so many opportunities to design things here." Wiefelstede in Ammerland in Lower Saxony is Anna-Lea Comba's main base. Here, she and a colleague took over the large animal department of a veterinary practice nine months ago and have been looking after the health of around 6,000 cattle since then. Veterinary medicine is no longer a male domain. On the contrary: There are many more female veterinarians than male veterinarians. Despite this, most large animal practices are still run by men. Anna-Lea has fulfilled her childhood dream by opening her own practice in the countryside: "I have never enjoyed going to work as much as I have in the last nine months." ___________________________________________________ Our guidelines for comments: https://www.ndr.de/service/technische...