( project 04. ) Freelance journalism
Between 2013 and 2018 I wrote regularly for brands and magazines that care about how things are made, among them Manufactum and BLONDE. Reporting, interviews and features where the people and the place carry the story.
Manufactum, Gutes aus Klöstern, 2018
On a winter morning in Berlin-Charlottenburg, two people who usually work nights set their alarms early: the owner and the bar manager of the jazz bar The Hat. Their task was to take herbal liqueurs from monasteries, long seen as dusty, and give them the lead in new cocktails. The piece ends with six recipes to mix at home.
BLONDE magazine, Freunde & Affären
Why a generation that could work in media chooses craft instead. Portraits of Berlin founders: two women who built a business on dried flowers, a couple distilling vodka from Berlin water in Kreuzberg, and two sisters running an online magazine for German-speaking craft and design.
Travel feature, four pages in print
A personal guide to a city I kept coming back to: Palermo's cafés and designers, San Telmo's market, and the bars where pensioners play cards in the early evening and young people dance tango after midnight. With a full list of places to eat, drink and dance.
What it taught me
Every subject has a person who can make it come alive.
A cocktail recipe, a dried-flower business, a city: the story always worked once I found the person at its centre. It is the same habit I bring to compliance, energy policy and development funding today.
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