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Life
Isabel Stettin is a reporter specializing in society, features, and portraits, based in Stuttgart. After studying communication science, politics, and philosophy, she attended the Zeitenspiegel Reportage School and has been part of Zeitenspiegel Reportagen since 2016. She works for magazines and TV formats, including Star, Spiegel Knowledge and the TV production company I&U Studios.
Your research regularly takes you to the German provinces – and time and again to distant locations: to Zimbabwe, Romania, Greenland, Cambodia, and most recently, as part of a scholarship from International Journalists' Programmes (IJP) to Japan.
Projects
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Isabel Stettin, ReportageLife Without Memory: Michi's Fight Back to the Present
A post by: Isabel Stettin and Richard Jürgens
Appeared on „Stern TV“ on July 30, 2025A car accident in South Africa shatters Michi's life – leaving her with severe injuries and amnesia that robs her of two full years. Suddenly, memories of her university graduation, shared travels, and building her life's dream of a monkey sanctuary are gone. Together with her husband Marc, she fights her way back to everyday life, learning to create new, unforgettable moments without her past.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagOcean sisters
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Terra Mater“ 01/2025As friends and allies, they compete for the biggest catches of seafood: Japan's freedivers, the Ama, uphold a proud tradition that makes them independent and self-assured. Now, they fight for themselves, nature, and their future—with every breath.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagMary full of grace
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Mein Kind“ 07/2023The Calderari are traditional Roma with strong rites and family ties. They are modern nomads – and deeply rooted.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagFood for a long life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Geo Wissen“ 04/2022On the Japanese island group of Okinawa, a surprisingly large number of people live to be over 100 years old. Researchers are convinced that the healthy diet of the islanders also plays an outstanding role in their life expectancy.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagInto the enchanted forest
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Geo – Wohlleben's World“ 09/2021Enchanted primeval forests, untouched nature, villages seemingly frozen in time: a journey through the Romanian Carpathians leads to one of the last wild corners of Europe.
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Isabel Stettin, Reportage, Sascha MontagNagi - City of Children
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Wienerin“ 02/2020Good plan. Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The population is shrinking dramatically. A small town is fighting back with its own unique methods.
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Isabel Stettin, ReportageIn the Amazon of the North
Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Nature“ 04/19Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's wildest corner: Anyone who wants to experience the Peene Valley must take to the water. The lowland moor area surrounding the river is an insider tip for birdwatchers and those seeking tranquility – tourism in harmony with nature.
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Isabel Stettin, Rainer Kwiotek, ReportageOld hands stroke sick souls
Photographer Rainer Kwiotek, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „MUT Magazine“ 2018In Zimbabwe, about 300 elderly women sit on „friendship benches“ in their villages and simply listen to people with mental illnesses.
With the wisdom they have acquired themselves over a long, arduous life, these „grandmothers“ try to alleviate the suffering of their patients. -
Isabel Stettin, ReportageThose who carry the fire within
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „NZZ Digital“ on 01/05/18Jakob Uunartoq is one of Greenland's last traditional hunters, and young Knud from the world's northernmost children's home is his student. A special friendship connects them both – at a time when the ice is getting thinner and thinner.
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Isabel Stettin, ReportageMiss Ann's flair for life
Photographer Sascha Montag, Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Eltern Family“, issue 11/2017In the northernmost children's home in the world, on the island of Uummannaq in Greenland, young Inuit embark on a journey to find their roots and, in doing so, discover a future.
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Isabel Stettin, ReportageDance with the guardian angel
Author Isabel Stettin
Published in „Stuttgarter Zeitung,“ March 27, 2017Can one dance without hearing the music? Without seeing their partners? In Esslingen, professional dancers and people with disabilities are now on stage together. Insights into an unusual project.