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Lena Kronenbürger,
Editor-in-Chief

Lena is especially passionate about conducting interviews because it gives her the opportunity to profit from her natural curiosity and to learn from interesting people and their experiences. She studied literature and linguistics in Bonn and Paris before pursuing a master’s degree in Modern Languages with a focus on Philosophy and Film Studies from the University of Oxford. She currently lives and works as a freelance journalist and moderator in New York City.

Eliana Berger,
Lead Editor

Eliana spends most of her time in life writing. When it’s not interviews for fortytwomagazine, it’s articles about trade, the labour market or real estate for Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, where she works in the business editorial office. Previously: Work for the WDR, ZDF, Focus and a variety of media based in Cologne. Eliana graduated with a degree in Politics, Sociology, and Psychology from the University of Bonn. Since then, she believes to have understood the complex relationship of politics, media and answers that are way too simple to be true. She is especially critical of the latter. Eliana has Cypriot roots; she grew up somewhere along the Western border of Cologne where she currently lives.

Kurt Bille,
Lead Editor

Kurt was born and raised in the metropolitan region of North Hesse. While his bachelor’s degree in economics took him to the south of Germany, he spent his Master’s high up north at the Copenhagen Business School. Kurt has a passion for processes of social transformation and strives for figuring out where our ideas and visions about the future stem from. The time he spent in Istanbul and Tel-Aviv made him understand how important it is to change perspectives and see contrasts in order to perceive the world more clearly. This is why Kurt worked with long-established companies and start-ups, climbed up mountains, jumped out of planes, and dared to drink beer after wine.

Lara von Richthofen,
Lead Editor

Lara gained her first degree in cultural studies, literature, creative writing, and psychology at the University of Bonn and Aberdeen. For her post-grad studies, she shifted her research interests to the transdisciplinary interplay of culture, international politics, and economics, aspiring to understand the world as it is and could be. Currently, she works in strategic communications for a social-democratic foundation. Lara lives and works in Bonn, Germany.

Ella Steiner,
Editorial Team Lead

Curious by nature, Ella’s favourite word growing up was “why”. Holding a master’s degree in French and German journalism from the Sorbonne University, she still loves asking questions, and what better occasion is there than conducting interviews with experts for fortytwomagazine? Other passions include Paris, mangoes, and good books.

Neele Mühlhoff,
Editorial Team

Neele, originally from a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, ended up in Munich after working in various larger cities in Germany and abroad. Her interest in different cultures and forms of society initially led her to study ethnology and geography in Heidelberg and Lund. Afterwards, she dealt with topics such as globalization and development with a focus on flight and migration in her master’s studies in Bonn. She currently works in the field of integration for a government agency, where acknowledging different perspectives and points of view is part of her daily work.

David Krebs,
Editorial Team

David is a young local journalist who is particularly passionate about detailed research and in-depth interviews. When he isn’t writing for fortytwomagazine he is busy working at Funke Medien Niedersachsen, where David is honing and expanding his skills in various areas of journalism – from local politics to data-driven research.

Lisa Zahrobsky,
Editorial Team

Lisa has always been curious about how language and stories shape politics and our societies. While studying Comparative Literature and Culture, French and International Politics in Bonn and Sweden, her thematic focus revolved around climate change and the various intersectional and intersectoral challenges increased by it. She enjoys putting theory into practice and has worked for an Intergovernmental Organization as well as in Policy Advising, exploring the narratives that drive international climate diplomacy. At work and beyond, Lisa is constantly on the lookout for inspiring perspectives, a fruitful debate, a pun to make and a dog to pet.

Charlotte Boschen,
Editorial Team

Charlotte was born and raised between France, Germany and Belgium and studied linguistics and literature in Bonn and Paris. She enjoys a good talk with great friends, the silence while reading a good book and daily adventures in her home of choice Freiburg and the surrounding Black Forest. At the same time she dreams about travelling the world and feeling at home everywhere. At work she is evolving in the publishing industry and happily surrounded by the most interesting authors, translators and publishers.

Laura Emily Schulze,
Editorial Team

Leonie Quedden,
Graphic Design

Sophia Stahl,
Editorial Team

Frederik Junge,
Technical Lead

#6–beliefs

Interviews

Eliana Berger
Kurt Bille
Jonas Hermann
David Krebs
Lena Kronenbürger
Sophia Stahl
Ella Steiner
Marie Welling
Lisa Zahrobsky

Translations

Kurt Bille
Ina Habermann
Jonas Hermann
David Krebs
Lara von Richthofen
Laura Emily Schulze
Ella Steiner
Marie Welling

Copy-Editing

Deutsch | German
Julia Becker

Englisch | English
Oscar Bell
Kandice Clarke
Jules Skotnes-Brown

#5–space

Interviews

Eliana Berger
Kurt Bille
Jenny Fadranski
Lucile Gagnière
Lena Kronenbürger
Sara Pichireddu
Lara von Richthofen
Ella Steiner

Translations

Lara von Richthofen, Lead
Charlotte Bander
Kurt Bille
Hannah Bliersbach
Christine Decker
Ina Habermann
Jonas Hermann
Elisabeth Lewerenz
Lara von Richthofen
Laura Emily Schulze
Britta Schüttler
Lara Sepcke

Copy-Editing

Oscar Bell
Hannah Bliersbach
Marcus Chin
Kandice Clarke
Ina Habermann
Elise Hamerslag
Jonas Hermann
Beth Hine
Nicole Hohmann
Elisabeth Lewerenz
Katharina Schröder

Artist
Protey Temen

Artist Liaison
Kurt Bille