This month in National Geographic Deutschland:
A portrait of dancer Can Gülec and the Hip Hop Academy in Hamburg Billstedt.
You can read the article here.

The consumption of a Singha beer with Rene, the author of the hotel story, brought about the last of my Bangkok stories (for now). We both had some time left in “the big mango” and, talking about all the interesting people we’d met, decided to show some of the cool stuff they do, to a German audience.
It’s time to get used to fact, that Bangkok is not only about ‘go go bars’ and pirated dvd’s these days. There is some true and original creativity out there, and it’s exiting and colourful.
The story was published in “Maxi” magazine.

The decision to use my visa to full capacity and extend my stay in Bangkok until mid March, brought me another two jobs and a lot more fun. For the magazine “Capital” I visited three very stylish boutique hotels and their owners. It made me wonder why most people still prefer to stay at hotel chains.

In January 2010 I left Hamburg, to spend a year in Thailands capital Bangkok.
Apart from expecting to get a decent sun tan and several mosquito bites, there wasn’t really a meaningful plan behind this venture into the unknown. I wasn’t too worried about getting a few assignements from magazines back home, in order to pay for my curries. Shortly after my arrival though, a political crisis hit the capital and Thailands image as an easy going Southeast Asian paradise took another dent. As a result, my potential clients looked elsewhere for untroubled travel destinations.
Before the city went up in smoke though, my girlfriend, travel companion, and liaison officer Gabriele, managed to sell an idea to the corporate magazine “à la carte” of household appliance maker “Miele”. She had read an interview with the well known food stylist Suthipong Suriya, aka Karb, in a Bangkokian paper. We found him to be not only a passionate lover of thai food, but also an expert on where to go for the best of it, how to cook it and of course, how to make it look extra-yummy.
I ended up not only taking the pictures, but for lack of an author, wrote my first editorial “piece” as well.