About
Dame Claudia Trimde
In front of the camera since 1999. Publisher of Le CITY deluxe since 2007. Apple developer since 2011. Building with and teaching AI since 2024. Founder of Trimde AI. Co-author of Barcelona Jumps!
In 2024 she was knighted Dame Knight of the Guardia di Pace at Erfurt Cathedral, conferred by Guardia di Pace Germany and the CCCi (Assisi-Malta). The honour, the photographs and the certificate are below.
Claudia started in front of the camera. In 1999 she co-presented the Channel 4 games show BITS, series 1, which aired from 04.06. to 20.08.1999.
In 2002 she founded the Barcelona agency Blackout Station, and in 2003 she was co-author and Creative Director of the book Barcelona Jumps!, with David Escamilla. In 2007 she founded the luxury city magazine Le CITY deluxe and became its publisher and CEO.
Over twelve editions she took Le CITY deluxe from Barcelona to Madrid, Istanbul and Miami. In 2011 its BARCELONA deluxe iPad app, launched in winter 2010/11, won Best Digital Publication at the AEEPP Awards in Madrid. Her DELUXE Agency became an official Apple developer in 2011. Her 2011 Istanbul media conference was covered by TRT Haber and Ülke TV. In 2012 she told publishers at WAN-IFRA Frankfurt why the customer wants mobile.
Today, from Berlin, she runs her own AI company at trimde.ai and shows founders and small companies how to put AI to work. She has built software since 2011, beginning with the BARCELONA deluxe iPad app. It is the same job as before: taking something new and a little intimidating and making it understandable for people who are not technical.
Languages: English, German, Spanish.
Honour
Knighted at Erfurt Cathedral, 2024
On 17 February 2024, Claudia Trimde was knighted Dame Knight of the Guardia di Pace in an investiture ceremony at Erfurt Cathedral (Erfurter Dom), conferred by Guardia di Pace Germany and the CCCi (Assisi-Malta).
Her special charge: Culture and Charity.
The investiture in photographs
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Service, culture and charity are traditions worth carrying into the age of AI.
The certificate of honour
Certificate of honour, 11 January 2024, signed by Wilfried Wolf, Grand Prior of Germany
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The investiture at Erfurt Cathedral
On 17 February 2024, Claudia Trimde was knighted Dame Knight of the Guardia di Pace in an investiture ceremony at Erfurt Cathedral (Erfurter Dom), conferred by Guardia di Pace Germany and the CCCi (Assisi-Malta).
She arrived the evening before, when the cathedral stood floodlit above the Domplatz. The next morning the knights and dames gathered on the cathedral's great steps. Inside, in their black and red capes, each bearing the eight-pointed star of the order, they took their places among the Gothic choir stalls. Claudia was invested and stood before the altar with her certificate of honour, signed by Wilfried Wolf, Grand Prior of Germany. The whole company then gathered beneath the cathedral's wrought-iron gates for the group portrait, and the day closed with a dinner among her fellow knights.
Her credentials name her special charge: Culture and Charity.
Timeline
- 1999Co-presents the Channel 4 games show BITS (series 1, 04.06. to 20.08.1999).
- 2000Appears as a dancer in the feature film Complicity.
- 2001Presents Líneas, a weekly fashion programme on the Spanish satellite platform Vía Digital (2001 to 2002).
- 2002Founds the Barcelona agency Blackout Station.
- 2003Co-author and Creative Director of the book Barcelona Jumps!, with David Escamilla (Blackout Station, Barcelona; ISBN 978-84-607-8863-8).
- 2004Appears in a guest role in the Telecinco series Los Serrano (season 2, episode 7, “Sodoma y Gomera”, first broadcast 13.01.2004).
- 2007Founds the luxury city magazine Le CITY deluxe as publisher and CEO.
- 2009Accésit (runner-up), Publication of the Year, AEEPP Awards, for BARCELONA deluxe.
- 2011Her BARCELONA deluxe iPad app (launched winter 2010/11) wins Best Digital Publication at the AEEPP Awards in Madrid (05.10.2011). ISTANBUL deluxe launches in Istanbul, covered by TRT Haber and Ülke TV.
- 2012Speaks at WAN-IFRA in Frankfurt (31.10.2012). Jury member at the AEEPP.
- 2024Knighted Dame Knight of the Guardia di Pace, investiture at Erfurt Cathedral, conferred by Guardia di Pace Germany and the CCCi (Assisi-Malta). See the honour
- 2026Founds her own AI company, trimde.ai, and teaches practical AI to founders and small companies. Panel speaker at the MQ Entrepreneurs Forum in Marbella (09.04.2026).
Author and journalist
Co-author and Creative Director of Barcelona Jumps! (Blackout Station, Barcelona, 2003), with David Escamilla. ISBN 978-84-607-8863-8.
The book was shown at a public exhibition in the Carpa del Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, from 8 to 14 September 2003. It is catalogued by the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
- Writing
- Author and journalist: 100+ articles, editor’s letters and interviews in BARCELONA deluxe and Le CITY deluxe (Spain, USA/Florida, India, Turkey and Russia editions, 2009 to 2014), with cover stories on Naomi Campbell, Virat Kohli and Chitrangda Singh and interviews with Fawaz Gruosi (de GRISOGONO), Caroline Scheufele (Chopard) and Manish Arora.
Selected writing
- Naomi Campbell, “Black Panther in Sin City”, cover story, Le CITY deluxe Russia edition.
- Virat Kohli, cover story, Le CITY deluxe India, April–May 2013.
- Chitrangda Singh, “Some Like It Hot”, cover story, Le CITY deluxe India, February–March 2013.
- Fawaz Gruosi, “Ode to Joy”, Le CITY deluxe USA/Florida, April–May 2014.
- Emilio Sánchez Vicario, “The values of sport”, BARCELONA deluxe, spring–summer 2011.
- Editor’s letter, “Welcome to international ultra luxury living”, first Le CITY deluxe USA/Florida edition, January–February 2013.
Credentials and film
- Dame Knight
- Knighted on 17 February 2024 at Erfurt Cathedral; conferred by Guardia di Pace Germany and the CCCi (Assisi-Malta). Certificate of honour dated 11 January 2024.
- M.A. (Hons)
- University of Glasgow, 2:1; the dissertation was awarded a first.
- Yoga
- Completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at House of Om, Ubud, 14.07. to 02.08.2025.
- AEEPP
- The Spanish association of periodical publishers. Best Digital Publication 2011 (BARCELONA deluxe app). Accésit, Publication of the Year, 2009 (BARCELONA deluxe). Jury member, 2012. Premios Nacionales de Marketing 2011: finalist.
Film and series
Dancer in the feature film Complicity (2000); presenter of the weekly fashion programme Líneas on Vía Digital (2001 to 2002); guest role in the Telecinco series Los Serrano (2004). IMDb ↗