Wieder ein Dopamin-Ausstoß. Wieder diese unechte Kommunikation. Wieder dieser Neid. Wie ich lernte, dass soziale Medien Gift sind für depressive Menschen. 

The most important thing I learned in 2015? That depression and social media do not go well together at all.

Christian and Magda have been married for ten years, for six they’ve been having affairs with other people. It works — mainly because they’ve never set any rules.

Die erste Folge meiner Serie "Eine Frage der Liebe": Christian und Magda sind seit zwölf Jahren zusammen, seit sechs Jahren haben sie Sex, Affären und kleine Liebesgeschichten mit anderen. Das funktioniert – vor allem, weil sie es nie geplant haben.

Kann Technik uns helfen, den Partner fürs Leben zu finden? Ein Kommentar zu Dating Apps und dem ewigen Jein – Wired Germany, April 2015

A four-step guide to making better digital media, adapted for magCulture from my keynote at QVED International Editorial Design Conference in February 2015. 

Berlin’s coolest creative director/art dealer/trendsetter talks about the real life behind her glamorous lifestyle.

Transcript of my audio recording of the "best of 2014" on magculture. 

Is the unifying power of football really down to everyone sharing a hatred of football commentators?

When will broadcasters finally decide to switch off the mic on the camera filming players signing their national anthems? When?!

Do referees suffer from PTSD?

Everyone waiting at the arrivals gate seemed to have them. They were attached to prams and backpacks, tied around toddlers’ arms, and clustering on the ceiling. The usual atmosphere at airport arrival gates is hurried, impersonal, a sense of people very impatient to get away. At Ben Gurion, the arrivals gate felt like a big family gathering, as if every single person here had come to pick up much-loved relative who’d come to Israel for a wedding.

When my parents went out at night, I would lie tense as a frightened animal, listening to every creak the house made, and eventually sneak into my little sister’s room to sleep in her bed. Later, when I had a key, I would lock the door to my own room to be spared whatever terrible things were happening out there for just a little longer.

“The idea behind The Germans was to rethink society, to look at how society and things like work are changing,” Nicole Zepter explains, as her son Otto expertly disassembles his pretzel. “I wasn’t happy with the status quo and I’m not satisfied with German media. There’s no corrective, they’ve lost their credibility. We wanted to do it better.”

Published in Gym Class Mag n°10, November 2013. 

Magazines are artefacts: A presence in one's home, library, café hotel or meeting place. Increasingly, magazines have been using this power to expand their reach into the real world. 

Published in The Alpine Review n°1, Autumn/Winter 2012

Everybody has at least heard of the Spanish bullfight, that pompous business of the ritualized killing of the animal by men in dazzling suits. It's a graceful, proud and fascinating spectacle, but it also comes with all the discomfort of watching an unfair fight. No matter how impressive the bull's performance, the game is forever rigged against him. Bullfighting is also an expensive and elitist affair: today's bullfighters marry into nobility, party with the Marbella jet set and are regular subjects of celebrity TV programmes. They're not "common people".

Published in HuffPost Books, August 9, 2012. 

Javier Bardem stahl natürlich allen die Schau. Als am 19. Juli mehr als 100.000 Beamte, Polizisten, Feuerwehrleute, Gewerkschaftler und andere Bürger in Spanien auf die Straße gingen , um gegen erneute Sozialkürzungen zu protestieren, da marschierte Bardem mit, zusammen mit seiner Mutter Pilar und seinem Bruder Carlos. Die Schauspielerfamilie sei wegen der Kürzungen dabei, sagte er, aber vor allem wegen der Mehrwertsteuererhöhung im Kultursektor. Diese sei "der Todesstoß für ein Kollektiv in der Krise" und "für den Zugang der Bevölkerung zur Kultur", zitierte ihn die Tageszeitung El Periódico .

Published in Zeit Online, July 24, 2012.