Mystifur



Mystifur is fursuiter and fursuit maker from Hamburg, Germany, director of Eurofurence fursuit department and public affairs, and owner of Mystic-Creatures, first fursuit studio to offer entirely 3D printed heads. Mystifur joined the furry fandom in the year 2000. He owns several fursuits, among them Verall (Species: King Cheetah) and Harly Kin (Species: Jester Fennec Fox)

About the person:

 * Date of birth: August 20th, 1975
 * Raised in his parents ice cream parlor, he grew up to be a gelato maker.
 * Later drafted by the military, he followed a career in the Airforce for some years.
 * Studied computer engineering at the technical university of Hamburg.

Conventions attended

 * SylCon 2001/2, 2002/3, 2003/4, 2005/6
 * Mephit Mini Con 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
 * Eurofurence 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
 * Further Confusion 2009
 * Confuzzled 2009, 2015, 2016
 * NordicFuzzCon 2017 2018 2019 2020

Eurofurence
He is involved in several departments as a senior staff member (see blow), most notably, director of the fursuit team and host of "Stage-Fever", the currently discontinued fursuit show.

Staff involvement

 * Eurofurence 10, 11 Fursuit Lounge Assistent
 * Eurofurence 12     Fursuit Lounge Lead
 * Eurofurence 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 23 24 Fursuit Team Director (Lounge, Repair Workshop, Parade, Badges)
 * Eurofurence           15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 23      Public relations (Touristic liaison, Show-Your-Badge Program, Public authority coordination)
 * NordicFuzzCon 2017 2018 Stew: Fursuit Lounge
 * NordicFuzzCon 2019        Stew: Dealers Den
 * NordicFuzzCon 2019        Stew: Dealers Den Vice Lead

Programming involvement

 * Eurofurence 11 New attendee welcome panel
 * Eurofurence 12 Started the EF custom to hold fursuit parades outdoors and in public. (Nuremberg Castle)
 * Eurofurence 13 "Stage-Fever 1", Host & director, (formerly "fursuit show/contest")
 * Eurofurence 14 "Stage-Fever 2"
 * Eurofurence 15 "Stage Fever 3", (as Kalif Al Jucaneet, story written by Shay)
 * Eurofurence 16 "Stage Fever 4"
 * Eurofurence 19 Impromptu Fursuit Disco at the local mall --- fursuit excursion to the zoo --- Fursuit Downtown Parade (Each with several hundred participating suiters)

Fandom/Fursuit Achievements

 * In 2006 Mystifur started the Eurofurence tradition to lead the fursuit parade out of the con site and into the local vicinity, culminating in a suit-walk like parade through entire downtown Magdeburg in 2013, with an estimated crowd of 6000 spectators, coming from all over europe just to see the parade.


 * Leaning strongly towards the costume side of the fandom, he kept working on improving fursuit support at various events. The Eurofurence Fursuit Lounge today is more than 1000 m² (11,000sqft), featuring a wide array of coolers and low-noise blowers, several racks of powered body-, head- and pawdryers, chill-out area, a 'round the clock supply of free fursuit friendly drinks and snacks. Arguably being one of the reasons for Eurofurence to achieve a fursuiter/attendee quota of almost 50%

Fun Facts

 * Provided fursuit heads for a fashion magazin in 2013. Result: Several of the non-furry people involved decided they now needed their own fursuits.


 * Considers himself somewhat boring, because he prefers to stay sober at parties.


 * Seems to have portable black hole in his car. The pile of luggage to go into the car is regularly bigger than the car itself