Introducing the cultural and culinary hotspots of Germany’s most exciting cities, MERIAN SCOUT guides its readers through their perfect city weekend trip. For this issue I got to explore and photograph the historic old town as well as the city center of Braunschweig (Brunswick)—and portrayed several fascinating people and locations along the way.

FOODIE, the young sister of Jahreszeiten Verlag’s renowned Feinschmecker magazine, is a culinary trend guide for the young generation of food connoisseurs. For this issue I joined Michelin star restaurant Jante’s Mona Schrader on a delicious and decadent day-long food sprawl through Hannover to discover local favorites and little-known culinary gems.

The idea behind this personal project was to a) thoroughly research murders of the last few years in my region and their respective crime scenes, b) to explore my ability to imagine and mentally re-play the situation that took place at the exact location and c) to use my camera to visualize the moment of the attack from the victim’s perspective, using a rather experimental approach.