Awards (selection)

2012
German Reporter Prize, category Best Freelance Reporter, for Der Bürgermeister der Hölle (The Mayor of Hell), a story on the mayor of war-torn Mogadishu. (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Munich, cover story No. 16/2012)

Hansel-Mieth-Prize: The jury honors Das Blut der Revolution (The Blood of the Revolution) on the Egyptian revolution as one of the ten best stories of the year. (Photos: Moises Saman; Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, cover story No. 22/2011)

2011
Nominated for the German Reporter Prize with Die dunkle Seite der digitalen Welt (The Dark Side of the Digital World) on Coltan mining in war-torn East Congo. (ZEIT Magazin, Hamburg, No. 2/2011

Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2011: The jury honors Der weiße Pygmäe (The White Pygmee) as one of the ten best stories of the year.  (Photos: Matthias Ziegler; ZEIT Magazin, Hamburg, cover story No. 3/11)

2009
Hansel-Mieth-Prize - the jury honors Kinderschokolade, my story of child labor in Côte d´Ivoire, as one of the ten best award-winning entries. 
(Photos: Daniel Rosenthal; Greenpeace Magazin)

Sangam House Writers´ Residency, Pondicherry, India

2008    
Herbert Breiter scholarship, spent in Greece

Ledig House Writers´ Residency, New York

2005    
Globetrotter Literature Prize for precious travel literature for Regenzauber