Cycling through Corsica, travelling to the Chilean port city of Valparaíso as a student, taking a minibus solo across Africa to Mount Kilimanjaro - I have this urge to pack my rucksack and set off.
When I was waiting in vain for the bus on the road in Mozambique, I gave a thumbs up and hitchhiked with a truck driver all the way to Zimbabwe. Born in Lindau on Lake Constance in the summer of 1992, I studied cultural studies and business administration in Chile and at Lake Wörthersee in Austria. In search of good stories, I moved to Munich and worked as a production assistant at „Gaugerfilm“. I developed with the foreign reporter Michael Obert the reporter school Reporter-Akademie Berlin. I completed my master's degree in political science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. For my master's thesis, I researched inclusive development strategies in southern Tunisia.
I travelled to over 60 countries, mostly alone, often in minibuses, always close to the people. In Pakistan, I researched the situation of women's rights and met Khadija Siddiqi, a young woman who survived a knife attack and is fighting for justice. I want to talk about the courage of such people. That's why I'll keep getting on the plane or standing at the side of the road with my thumb outstretched.
Today I work as a communications consultant, content creator and journalist. I speak English, Spanish and French and have trained as an intercultural trainer at BAMIK. I deepened my research techniques and dramaturgy at the Reportageschule Reutlingen. I have been a communications consultant at the agency Storywerk Berlin since 2022. My reports, analyses and reports appear in Stern, Spiegel Online, ZEIT Online, ZEIT Campus Magazin, Globetrotter Magazin, Bonner Generalanzeiger and taz.
