Christian Hellinger

In 2012, Christian gained a foothold in the advertising industry and joined the Viennese creative agency Wien Nord in the following year, where he initially began his career in account management after his internship. Soon he switched to the creative side as a copywriter. Three years later, in 2016, he became Creative Director and an agency partner in 2019 – a position in which he successfully helped shaping the merger between Wien Nord and the international Serviceplan Group in 2020. At the House Of Communication Vienna Christian is in charge of Wien Nord Serviceplan’s creative output and its exchange with all international creatives within the group. He became a Managing Partner in January 2022. His work has been awarded at multiple national festivals such as CCA and EFFIE as well as internationally at Golden Drum, Eurobest or ADC*E. Wien Nord Serviceplan was ranked Austria’s most successful Agency at 2024’s ADC*E and contributed one of the festival’s most awarded works of the year, “A Few Degrees More” for the Viennese Leopold Museum.

Christian holds a master’s degree in Romance languages as well as a bachelor’s degree in communication science at the University of Vienna, where he also taught as an external lecturer for advertising from 2015 to 2021.

In 2024, he was elected president of the Creativ Club Austria (CCA), Austria’s largest association of representatives of the creative industry and member of the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE). Christian lives and works in Vienna.