I grew up in Germany, studied sports sciences but soon after that moved to Johannesburg, where I have been based since. For years I reported freelance on human rights and land rights issues in Subsaharan Africa and the Arab world, mostly Palestine and Lebanon. The focus of my work on the African continent are investigating corporations (extractives, agriculture, tourism,…) and their impact on local communities and the environment, as well as ocean related issues, with an interest in fisheries and sharks and rays.Non-journalistically, in 2018, I co-founded the alternative learning center Timbuktu in the Valley in Johannesburg’s inner city.
