Report

My aim is always to convey aspects of reality as directly as I can. In my reporting, I try to question knowledge that has previously been seen as indisputable through offering a new perspective.

For example, I once visited German and international journalists in Great Britain at a training camp for crisis zones.

Audiences often believe that foreign journalists are always looking for the thrill, but what I found was that surprisingly, the cameramen from WDR and Al Jazeera actually preferred to capture the calm moments. I have to believe that reports on television still need real pictures and real statements that aren’t staged in a manner to suit the media, but are instead authentic moments captured by authentic work.

God instead of drugs (2019)

^{ARD | Reportage, Echtes Leben | 30 minutes || script, director, camera, editor}  
While other young people party at the weekend, the 17-year-old Rainer gets up like every morning at 6 a.m. and begins his day with a prayer. As a drug addict he lives in a former monastery on the "Hof der Hoffnung", the "Fazenda da Esperanca". For him the voluntary alternative to juvenile prison. Rainer meets Sebastian who was a heroin addict and managed to get clean at a fazenda ten years ago. Then he had a relapse. For the second time, he decides to spend a year at the Fazenda. Can religion help combat drug addiction?

Wage Slaves (2017)

^{NDR | report, DIE REPORTAGE | 30 minutes || script, director, camera, editor} 

It is a rare insight into the life of Romanian workers and also their superiors in Lower Saxony. This was possible, because we were able to accompany Daniela Reim, a native of Romania, for six months. She is working for the "mobile workers" office in Oldenburg, Germany, and is working in the film against abuses in slaughterhouses, construction and poultry transport. Daniela Reim shows, how Eastern European workers are systematically cheated of their wages by their subcontractors. 

Flying Spaghetti Monster (2016)

^{NDR | report, DAS! | 4 minutes || script, director, camera, editor, narrator} 

The confession of faith stands on a noodle roll, they celebrate pasta fairs and call themselves pastafarians: the members of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the Uckermark. Every Friday at 10am there is a worship service. On the altar stands a box of beer - and of course many noodles. The community of beliefs exists in Germany since 2006 and has according to the association founder, Ruediger Weida, 30 million followers worldwide. However, only a few hundred are active in Germany. Their goal: the constant doubt - and to take everything in matters of religion not so seriously.

Training camp for crisis zones (2014)

^{NDR | report, Zapp | 7 minutes | script, director, camera, editor}

Gunfire. “On the ground!” four masked men in battle dress-uniform yell, “Helmets down!” About a dozen shocked journalists hit the deck to dive for cover. Although they react in the right way, their behavior in this case will be their undoing. Journalists in crisis zones: popular victims of kidnapping and endangered by projectiles and mines. How can one be prepared for that? Ex-Marines say it’s possible.

Illegal graffiti painter (2010)

^{NDR | report, N-Joy | 4 minutes || script, director, camera, editor, post-production}  

Some people call it art, some say it’s just a smudgy mess. Despite the heavy punishment for illegal graffiti painting, these painters are addicted to the kick. This report follows a group of illegal graffiti painters from Rostock, East Germany as a special force of the German police attempts to track them down.