Since 1995, I have been a journalist, and after 25 years in this profession, I still love what I am doing.
Below, you´ll find some of my recent stories that were translated into English.
A Looming Disaster: Brexit Threatens
To Become The Messiest of Messy Divorces
Great Britain will be leaving the EU common market at the end of the year, and there are still important issues to be hammered out. Both sides could be facing a disaster - in the form of huge traffic jams, job losses and rising prices.
Corona in the Slaughterhouse:
The High Price of Cheap Meat
German slaughterhouses have been hit recently with horrifying coronavirus outbreaks. The industry, and its biggest players, share the blame.
The white-plastered house near Münster in the far west of Germany isn't really a home at all. It's more of a dormitory, like so many others in this area. It offers a place to sleep until the next shift begins. In recent days, however, this house has been transformed into a prison...
New Brazilian President
Takes Aim At The Amazon
Jair Bolsonaro wants to open up protected indigenous territories in the Amazon rain forest to mining, cattle ranching and farming. These reserves played a decisive role in protecting the Amazon rain forest. Most of the last remaining intact primeval forest areas can be found in them and many of its inhabitants are resolutely opposed to overexploitation and, as such, to the destruction of the rain forest.
Bolsonaro´s decision could be a fateful one for the global climate.
Multimedia: A Voice for the Dead: Recovering the Lost History of Sobibór
Henchmen with the Nazi SS sought to cover up the mass murder that occurred at the Sobibór concentration camp in eastern
Poland. Archeologists recently uncovered the site's hidden gas chambers and important artifacts that shed light on the victims. A multimedia feature story for SPIEGEL.de.
> "This was the Best Moment of my Life" - an Interview with Sobibór Shoa Survivor Philip Bialowitz
Secret Thatcher Notes: Kohl Wanted Half of Turks Out of Germany
Unsealed confidential British documents reveal that in 1982, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl tried to carry out a radical plan. He wanted to reduce the number of Turks living in Germany by 50 percent within four years.
> BBC story about this SPIEGEL ONLINE scoop