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

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

Das Magazin: Boubous aus Sachsen
VDI Nachrichten: Der Acker als Mine
Technology Review: Wütende Wasser. Wie schützen wir uns in Zukunft vor Flut und Hochwasser?
VDI Nachrichten: Biogas aus dem Keller

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

Imprint

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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