Life

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.

 

 

Travel Slam: Solo from Cape Town to Kilimanjaro