Semi-Precious
The highlanders forests, once partially sacred and a trusted source for their livelihood, has been sold by the government and is still in the process of being sold out.
The highlanders forests, once partially sacred and a trusted source for their livelihood, has been sold by the government and is still in the process of being sold out.
The Gold Forest is an area off limits to everyone not into the gold business. It is a very remote stretch of land with its own rules of law. Read the story here.
Siem Reap, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Phnom Penh
Peace is all people want – and businesses, foreign and local, take advantage of it, exploiting the country and their people to a point of no return.
Bangkok
Sukhumvit Road feels like little Tokyo now – wonderful modern architecture, international flair – but still traffic jams you will have nightmares from.
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The long-anticipated move to the new Tokyo fish market will take place in November 2016, in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Producer & translator
Reporting in Dresden and Berlin about the refugee situation and German politics, for Tony Connelly.
Osaka, Kobe, Mt Rokko, Tokyo, Tsukiji Fish Market, Kamakura
Tokyo is changing quickly. The famous Tsukiji Fish Market will finally be moved in 2016.
Co-Autorin & Regie
2 x 45 min. ZDF Reportage mit Matthias Fornoff
Varna, Balschik
Cheap Thrills: Golden Sands Tourism. This is the place where European schoolkids party and things get out of control – intentionally.
Chisinau, Dorotcaia, Crocmaz
Moldova’s simplicity is comforting. Spending a couple of days in a public school, at the border of Transnistria, was inspiring. Moldovans have solutions for almost everything.
Galiny, Bartoczyce, Wegorzewo
The north of Poland, with its tree-lined avenues, the never-ending horizon and storks nesting in small villages. Peaceful.
If you ask the Burmese, they say they don’t like Myanmar.
Yangon, Bagu, Bagan, Mandalay, Myitikyna, Wai Maw, Kyaing Tong, Inle Lake
A gold mine for foreign investments. The Burmese government is selling the land and their people. Myanmar has a Chinese touch already.
Siem Reap, Anlong Veng, Cambodia, Northern Thai Border Area
Khmer people are energetic, alert and they havea sense of humor. Cambodia is still recovering from the tragic loss and harm during the Khmer Rouge regime.
In 2014 I was doing research for a documentary about dictators’ cooks. I visited the cook of the former Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, in the north of Cambodia.
Autorin & Regie
52 min. Dokumentation
Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis
Europe, a construction for which no one has a feel.
Umbria Cobblestone streets, fantastic food and landscapes to make your jaw drop.
Head Producerin für ZDF/ARTE
2x 52 min. Dokumentation mit Claus Kleber.
Autorin & Regie
28 Min. Reportage
Brussels Europe, a construction for which no one has a feel.
Warsaw Working on a reportage for ARTE – womens rights, abortion rights in Poland.
Warsaw, Praga
Dark tempting alleys in Praga.
Author, director, executive producer
52 min. documentary for element 6 media UG, ZDF Editor: Linde Dehner
Hanoi, Ha Giang, Yen Minh, Pho Cao, Dong Van Province, White Hmong
Pho Cao, this is one of the remotest places I have been. The Hmong believe that people have seven souls and they prepare for their deaths as early as puberty starts.
Autorin und Konzeptentwicklung
Recherchestipendium der DEFA Stiftung.
Strasbourg, Colmar
Markets filled local cheese and sausages, lots of empty houses everywhere.
New York, Brooklyn
I often go back to the former home to get inspired. Breathing in the different speed and the energy of NYC. I am glad I have moved away. I am able to come back and be a guest.
Autorin, Regie & Produzentin
43 min. Reportage
Nairobi, Dandora, Nakuru, Great Rift Valley, Central Province, Nyeri
I experienced Kenyans as especially sceptical human beings. When you have fair skin and are a journalist – everyone is expecting the worst from you.
Colombo, Kandy, Jaffna, Trincomalea, Batticaloa, Galle, Merissa
The Tamil Tigers are gone and the civil war has ended officially, but it is still a torn country with very diverse interests.
Although camps have been removed as of April 2015 as many as 13,459 families, accounting for 44,934 persons, were yet to be resettled and houses for them are still under construction.
Multimedia Blogger
185 tägliche Einträge mit eigenen Videos und Fotos von der Drehreise.
Author, director, producer
5×45 min. documentary series on the six-month journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
Bariloche, Esquel, Tierra de Fuego, Ushaia, Isla Martillo, El Calafate, Strait of Magellan, Bajo Caracoles, Nahuel Huapi Lake, Ruta 40, Ushuaia
Gaucho country, endless fields, endless lakes and skies. This country invites you to breathe and open your view. Best steaks ever.
Santiago de Chile, Osorno, Chanaral, Pan de Azucar, ESO Paranal Observatory, Torres del Paine, Porvenir, Iquique, Humbertstone Salpeter Mine
ESO, the biggest observatory in the world, is in Chile. Seeing the full length of the Milky Way with my bare eyes was a very touching moment.
Atacama, Lima, Cusco, Tacna Sibayo, Chimbote, Chiclayo, Sipan, Piura, Lambayeque, Arequipa, Nazca Lines, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Tacna
The Atacama is endless. I swore I will hug the first tree I see, after days of driving through nothing. But then I visited a guinea pig restaurant in Lima.
Quito, Guayacil, Sigsig, Macará, Cuenca, Catamayo, Cajas National Park
Caja National Park has an average of 4,000 meters of altitude – it’s a Tundra. The air is so clear, that you can’t judge distances.
Buenaventura, Cali, Ipiales
Buenaventura is a harbor town with some illegal, strange activities. The main police station was on the other side of the hotel – it got attacked 2 days after I left.
Panama City, Colon, Pacific & Atlantic coast, Darién Gap, Yaviza
The little villages along the Panama Canal are completely untouched, people from those villages work all for the Canal. The Darien Gap, a muddy Isthmus between Panama and Colombia, is called one of the most dangerous places on earth. It is a drug and people smuggling highway, commuting through the dense, uninhabited jungle.
Golfito, San José, Piedras Blancas, Canoasv, Monteverde National Park, Gulf of Nicoya, Tamarindo, Langosta Bay
Living in a treehouse. Sleeping at eye level with toucans and listening to the night sounds of the jungle. Zoom on long steel zip lines through the jungle of Costa Rica, to the next tree house.
Border El Espino, Somoto
I got in contact with the wrong sort of Sandinistas, the ones that were, after elections, no longer supported by the newly-appointed government – and since then I am an enemy of the state and I am not allowed to ever travel in this country again.
Choluteca, Pacific & Atlantic coast, San Lorenzo Reserve, Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula
At the border crossing El Salvador/Honduras the officers wanted a big bribe.
Sunzal, San Salvador, Tazumal, La Libertad, El Amatillo
I had armed guards with me at all times, even when buying an ice cream. The guards didn’t want to be treated for an ice cream, because when they share an ice cream with you – they cannot fight off attacks.
Guatemala City, La Mesilla, Huehuetenango, Panajachel, Reserva Los Tarrales, Quetzaltenango, Atitlan, Antigua, Volcano Pacaya, Las Chinamas, Finca Santa Isabel
The sound of liquid lava is like that of breaking glass. On May 27, 2010 – 3 month later – the Pacaya volcano erupted, followed in several tremors.
Mexico City, Nogales, Hermosillo, Copper Canyon, Creel, Cerocahui, Mazatlan, Jalisco, Guadalajara, Tequila, Mexiko City, Teotihuacan, Puebla, Popocatepetl, Oaxaca, Juchitan de Zaragoza, Huatulco, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Palenque, Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas de Corzo, La Mesilla
Mexico being in the news for no good things is actually a very interesting, cultural rich and welcoming country. They are the nicest people!
Travelling from 200 Kilometers from Phuntsholing to Darjeeling took me 7 hours. Many roadside accidents, construction sides and farm vehicles obstructed the road. I have rarely seen steeper roads than in the Darjeeling mountains.