Stephan Kroener

Stephan Kroener is a freelance journalist and holds a doctorate in history. In his reading pieces, he combines journalistic storytelling with creative non-fiction of literary merit. His main focus is on highlighting human destinies. He loves researching, both in archives and on location, and despite his fear of heights, he will climb crooked church towers or lighthouses, travel to the island of whalers on a historic steamboat with a crew of pensioners, and descend into mines with a Christmas stollen in his arms. At Lake Tegernsee, he searched for traces of Bob Marley, in Bayreuth for those of Angela Merkel, and at a castle in Upper Swabia for the ‘birth certificate’ of the USA. In Colombia, his second home, he flew to a guerrilla camp in a raisin bomber and accompanied migrants from the Ecuadorian border to the jungle of Darién. His as yet unpublished novel ‘Orly, wie der Flughafen in Paris’ (Orly, like the airport in Paris) tells the story of a homeless man in Bogotá searching for his German roots and for himself.

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