Greens in a Bag Do More Than Satiate City Without the Poor Escape Point Hamburg Farming in the Concrete Jungle Real Green Visionary Texas in a Gas Frenzy Vegetables Instead of Cadillac Cacti to Biogas Flowers Instead of Maize Monoculture Harvest in Designer Boots Grill Briquettes from Olive Pits The Scent of Sang Thong Basement Power Plant A Matter of Ears Fairly Dressed Too Good to Be True Vegetables Instead of Cadillac Fairly Dressed Bomb Craters to Biotopes A Matter of Ears Hiking on the Path of Enlightenment Jungle Giants Underwater Harvest in Designer Boots Temporary Saints German Farmers Emigrate German Farmers Emigrate In the Belly of Groundedness Greens in a Bag Do More Than Satiate Kosher Milk from Black Pied Cows Beneath the Pavement Lies Humus Leftover Ramp Africa In the Belly of Groundedness Healing Milk from the Humped Animal Temporary Saints Cacti to Biogas Shoes for the World Cacti to Biogas Flowers Instead of Maize Monoculture Bomb Craters to Biotopes Woman Seeks Farmer Rice Bag in Danger Escape Point Hamburg Healing Milk from the Humped Animal Greens in a Bag Do More Than Satiate Calm Despite Wind Too Good to Be True Shoes for the World Danish Kingdom Altona Basement Power Plant Fish in the Rice Field Manure to Gold Texas in a Gas Frenzy Farming in the Concrete Jungle Danish Kingdom Altona In the Belly of Groundedness Rice Bag in Danger Fish in the Rice Field Beneath the Pavement Lies Humus Healing Milk from the Humped Animal Holy Cow on Wheels Woman Seeks Farmer Leftover Ramp Africa Farming in the Concrete Jungle Hiking on the Path of Enlightenment Rotor Relief Organization Fish in the Rice Field Rotor Relief Organization Grill Briquettes from Olive Pits Fairly Dressed The Scent of Sang Thong Leftover Ramp Africa Texas in a Gas Frenzy Kosher Milk from Black Pied Cows Kosher Milk from Black Pied Cows Garlic from German Fields Rice Bag in Danger Escape Point Hamburg Calm Despite Wind Harvest in Designer Boots The Scent of Sang Thong Manure to Gold Jungle Giants Underwater Too Good to Be True Basement Power Plant Manure to Gold Coal Children Bomb Craters to Biotopes Jungle Giants Underwater Woman Seeks Farmer Flowers Instead of Maize Monoculture Garlic from German Fields Holy Cow on Wheels Danish Kingdom Altona City Without the Poor Temporary Saints Real Green Visionary Shoes for the World A Matter of Ears Vegetables Instead of Cadillac Grill Briquettes from Olive Pits Calm Despite Wind Coal Children Coal Children City Without the Poor German Farmers Emigrate Garlic from German Fields Real Green Visionary Hiking on the Path of Enlightenment Beneath the Pavement Lies Humus Rotor Relief Organization Holy Cow on Wheels

Klaus Sieg

Topical

  • Reports, texts, features, newsletters, brochures and concepts for daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, special interest publications, websites and organizations
  • on agriculture and food, the environment, energy, business and social issues
  • Research from Hamburg-Altona to Timbuktu
  • Cooperation with photographers, graphic designers, film productions and web designers

Interwoven with the whole world. This is the title of one of my reports, which is about the production of fabrics for boubous in the German Erzgebirge. The colorful garments are worn by Muslim men and women in West Africa on holidays, at weddings or to go to the mosque. By buying the fine fabrics for their boubous, these people secure jobs in the heart of Saxony.

Quite a few people today would like to disentangle our country from the world. Yet everyone could benefit if we continued to weave ourselves together on an equal footing. This is also shown by my report in Brand eins (https://www.brandeins.de) about the entrepreneur Sarjo Darbo, a Hamburger from Gambia and a Gambian from Hamburg.

The small pepper farmers from Kampot are also interwoven with the world. The spice from the Cambodian province is very popular with gourmets and chefs. With the help of the Social Enterprise Farmlink (https://www.farmlink-cambodia.com) , they sell their traditionally grown pepper at fair prices, including to Germany and France. I visited them together with photographer Martin Egbert (http://www.martin-egbert.de).

The world is full of solutions. I have had the pleasure of reporting on many of them in recent months: Urban farming in Tokyo, a biogas plant in Japan's tallest skyscraper, fertilizer trees in Senegal, a clothing repair fund in France, the reforestation of mangroves in West Africa, Hamburg as a sponge city, regional mustard cultivation in Burgundy, gardening for dementia patients in Ratingen, etc.

Some of this has appeared on the New York website for solution-oriented journalism. Reasons to be Cheerful is run by the Arbutus Foundation, founded by David Byrne (Talking Heads). Have a look: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/author/klaus-sieg

Vita

  • Born in 1959
  • Apprenticeship as a carpenter, studied history, archaeology and musicology
  • 1998 - 2001 Editor-in-chief for special issues of the city magazine Szene Hamburg (including Essen+Trinken, Hamburg von A-Z)
  • Since 2001 freelance author, reports for journals, newspapers and magazines, texts and concepts for organizations and companies as well as editorial management for various publications
  • Work trips to Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, China, France, Gambia, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Cambodia, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Macedonia, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Nigeria, North Africa, Panama, Poland, Rwanda, Romania, Zambia, Sweden, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Hungary, Russia, Vietnam, Belarus, Zambia

Works

Natur: Deutschland sucht den Superbaum
Effilee: Zu Besuch bei Mutti
Greenpeace Magazin: Guerilla-Botanik
Brand eins: Zwei Leben

Works

Broschüre: Gewerbeschule für Kraftfahrzeugtechnik
3. Auflage ab September 2024 wieder im Handel
Geolino: Kohlekinder in Indien

Customers

Brand eins / Biogas – Journal / Chrismon Plus / Das Magazin /  DEGA Gartenbau / Food and Farm / Flur und Furche /Hinz&Kunzt / NOZ / GEOlino / Greenpeace Magazin/ Lebensmittelzeitung / Natur / NZZ / PM / Reasons to be Cheerful / Rural 21 / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Technology Review /VDI Nachrichten/ Wald und Holz/ WOZ / Zeitzeichen

Behörde für Schule und Berufsbildung / Brot für die Welt / Bundeszentrum für Ernährung / Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) / Hannover Messe / Staatliche Gewerbeschule Kraftfahrzeugtechnik

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Klaus Sieg

Journalist and Copywriter

Rothestr. 66
D-22655 Hamburg

 +49 171 6394262

klaus (at) siegtext.de
www.siegtext.de

Photographers

Jörg Böthling, Martin Egbert

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