Carsten Stormer
Born in 1973, Carsten hoped to become a ship captain but abandoned his training to become a shipping agent, bartender, and traveller. Not a habitual reader, nor even a writer of postcards, he nonetheless resolved to go into journalism, initially joining the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia and Burma’s Myanmar Times. He later studied journalism in Bremen and at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India before receiving a scholarship to the Günter Dahl school of feature reporting. Free-lance writer since 2004.
Features
Krämer at war
Appeared in Focus, February 9, 2009
He is stationed in Afghanistan with an elite commando unit of the German Bundeswehr. For four months, Felix Krämer puts his life on the line, accompanied by his fellow soldiers and a team from FOCUS. More »
The Burmese patient
unpublished
The military dictatorship regards them as terrorists. They call themselves nonviolent rebels: In eastern Burma, a few hundred “Free Burma Rangers” battle the apparent genocide against the Karen with medicines and cameras. A visit to east Asia’s Darfur. More »
Life is good
Appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau, October 9, 2008
War has broken out again in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. This is the story of Bailyn Mandi, who got caught between the front lines. More »
The marble shantytown
Appeared in Focus, March 3, 2008
Several thousand people live in Manila’s northern cemetery – along with two million of the dead. They inhabit mausoleums or sleep on or between graves, wondering if the dead might not be better off. More »
Once upon a time in the east
Appeared in Focus Nr. 23/2008
Ethiopian occupiers, a helpless government, Islamic militias, pirates, and hundreds of thousands of refugees in danger of starvation. Somalia is out of control. More »
The women of Lake Kivu
Appeared in Galore, Nov. 26, 2008
In theory, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is at peace. But in the last year alone, more than 17,000 women in the province of South Kivu were raped – because nothing was done to slow the perpetrators down. More »
"I'm good at killing"
Appeared in Cicero, January, 2007 More »
A four-month sentence for four cassettes
Appeared in stern.de in August, 2007 and Y magazine in January, 2008 More »