Antje interviews actors, artists and iconoclasts - and any personality with something to say. She writes home stories, artist portraits and travel features. Sometimes she hosts readings, organises salon style dinner parties and makes short films. When Antje is not on the road, she lives in Berlin.
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SALON Magazin
In my role as Editor-at-Large at SALON Magazin (a quarterly published by Gruner & Jahr Verlag), I’m primarily responsible for the interviews. I truly appreciate SALON’s dedication to original reporting and their independently produced content, such as the extensive travel features and offbeat home stories. For California Dreamin I visited journalist, Esma Annemon Dil, at her house in Los Angeles; and Walden Revisited tells the story of The Troutbeck Hotel in Upstate NY, and its new owners.
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Oh Corinna!
"I began early on to wonder what would remain after my sexual power disappeared. Who do I want to be? Where do I put the inevitable pain I'm bound to feel?" Actress Corinna Harfouch in an interview for Die DAME magazine, published in December 2019. 📷 Joachim Gern
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Celebrity Interviews
What I can say for sure, is that oddly sometimes it’s “the greats” that are the easiest to work with. Cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, dusted off his Oscar’s tuxedo for our shoot with Martin Schoeller; Devendra Banhart invited me into his studio in downtown LA and swapped with me one of his drawings for my cookbook. As for publisher Gerhard Steidl, he might have kept me waiting but when he arrived, boy was he present.
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Collaborations
I regularly work with illustrator, artist and art director Sarah Illenberger; she conceives of the visual concepts, and I the writing.
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MERIAN Marrakesch
Designer portraits for Merian Magazin:
Laurence Leenart (LRNCE), Randall Bachner (Marakshi Life), Artsi Ifrach (Maison ARTC), Caitlin & Sam Dowe-Sandes, Ismail & Soufiane Zarib (Soufiane Zarib). 📷 Brita Sönnichsen -
Run Lola Run
For the 20th anniversary of Run Lola Run, Gabriela Herpell and I interviewed the film’s protagonists such as Franka Potente and Tom Tykwer for a SZ magazine cover story.
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Oh, how beautiful is the Uckermark!
Merian Magazine sent photographer Maria Schiffer and I to Brandenburg to explore the Uckermark, and it was surprisingly delightful. Go East!
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The Weekender
I regularly write travel and artist features for The Weekender magazine, created by indie-publishers Dirk Mönkemöller & Christian Schneider, and famous for its distinct covers and layouts. From top to bottom: Ceramist Laura Strasser in Brandenburg, artist Samantha Thomas in Malibu and photographer Nico Krijno with his wife in South Africa.
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SALON x Dinner series
In my capacity as Editor-at-Large at SALON Magazine, I was tasked with conceiving of and hosting quartelry dinner parties at special locations like König Galerie in Berlin or the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf. From the curation of the menu and guestlist to the very theme of the evening, my aim is bring together the best and brightest for an intimate and stimulating evening befitting of the name SALON.
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Hollyfood
For B-EAT magazine, I took a wonderous and colourful food safari through Los Angeles. I can now declare if an $ 18 omelette is worth it (yes!), and where to find the very best tacos in LA (at a teeny, tiny downtown strip mall!).
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Eat pasta and write about it
I designed and published a cookbook with Nicole Schuman, the owner of Pappa E Ciccia to mark the 10th anniversary of her legendary Berlin restaurant. Each chapter is designed by a different creative, and friend of the house. Names include: Sarah Illenberger, Erik Wålström, Robin Kranz, Peter Langer, Stephanie Füssenich and Anna Rose. Published by Seltman & Söhne Verlag. The book sold out in weeks and is already something of a collector's item.
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End of the World
Visiting Fogo Island, a small island off the coast of Newfoundland, is a unique and unforgettable experience. With its holistic concept, Zita Cobb's Fogo Island Inn is perhaps the best hotel I have visited. Together with photographer, Debora Mittelstaedt, I worked on series of Fogo Island stories, and they will be published serially in 2020.
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Ask Ms. Sawatzki
“My educational philosophy? An open house! Particularly during the teenage years. We always welcomed their friends, partly out of self-interest in that we then get to see our kids more, but also because we didn't want them running around the city at night." Actress Andrea Sawatzki in an interview for dbmobil. 📷 Jonas Holthaus
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Postcard from ...
Every now and then I send a postcard from the road to small but perfectly curated travel column at FAS magazine, which is published weekly by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Ciao for now!
Forte dei Marmi für das FAS Magazin. Kleine, feine Reiserubrik, für die ich immer mal wieder einen Gruß abliefere. Ciao for now!
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Presentation
Asking questions is my calling - even in front of an audience. For the 2019 Berlinale, I moderated a talk with Alysa McCall from Polar Bears International, and I interviewed fashion designers, Wolfgang Joop, and, Guido Maria Kretschmer, about the latest books at lit.cologne 2019.
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Workation
‘The beauty of being a freelancer’, I lived and worked in Venice, California for a few months with my family and wrote for Nido magazine about working and traveling on the road with a kid. 📷 Anna Rose
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Saturday shopping
Travel feature in which various creatives show us around their city: Antwerp with Vincent van Duysen, Marrakech with Laurence Leenart and Paris with Gesa Hansen. Published in SALON Magazine.
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Cultural Agenda
Monthly column in SALON Magazin, featuring interviews with the most interesting voices of German culture, among them theatre director, Thomas Ostermeier, director Maria Schrader, architect Arno Brandlhuber, collector Julia Stoschek, choreographer Sasha Waltz, author Niklas Maak.
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Feature SZ Magazin
“He‘s the boss, but he makes me feel he appreciates my work.” Jon Donahue has a strange job: he has to stand in on location for Tom Hanks. That‘s basically it. Interview: Antje Wewer.
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L.A. Stories
For German Harper's Bazaar, I interviewed lengedary photographer, Julian Wasser, in Los Angeles. Wasser achieved a cult status for his now iconic picture, taken 1968, of author Joan Didion in front of her Corvette Stingray. Julian and I remain friends and along with cinematographer, Frank Griebe, we are collaborating on a short film about Wasser’s Life and work.
