Ali Saleh Barber Seminare

Ali Saleh runs barbering seminars as a mobile trainer, travelling to the client’s own salon rather than teaching at a fixed school. The business is based in Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, but the training itself happens on your premises, which makes this a practical option for a shop wanting to bring a whole team up to standard at once.

The seminar costs 2,000 euros net for a group of up to six participants, with travel included within a 50-kilometre radius, and materials and a certificate included. Content covers machine handling, hair and beard fades, contours and transitions, shading, dry, wet and full shaving, beard shaping matched to face shape, and waxing of ears, nose and face. Participants choose two of three cuts, taper fade, high fade or buzz cut, to practise on live models. Dates are agreed after booking rather than published, which is normal for this model. The duration in days is not stated, so establish that when you enquire. This is a sole trader operation issuing its own certificate, with no chamber or guild affiliation.

A note on German credentials, because the labels mislead. Friseur is a regulated Handwerk trade and running a salon requires a Meisterbrief, but Barbier is not a separate recognised trade and there is no Barbier Ausbildung. So German barbering training is essentially all continuing professional development: private seminars issuing their own certificates, or courses run through a Handwerkskammer-linked or guild-linked academy. Neither route leads to a Gesellenbrief or a Meisterbrief, and a certificate calling you a “Master Barber” confers no legal standing whatsoever.