Mirco Lomoth has been working full-time as a freelance journalist since 2007. He has contributed to many publications including Beef!, Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard, Die Zeit, Du, einestages.de, Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Geolino, geo.de, Geo Special, National Geographic Deutschland, NZZ, Stern, stern.de, taz, Welt, WoZ und zeit.de. In addition, he has written press articles for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Leibniz Association and SOS-Kinderdörfer.

He writes news coverage, reports and interviews on the topic of travel/tourism, foreign affairs, social issues, environment/science and history. He also produces photography and multimedia (podcasts, audio slideshows and web documentaries.)

Mirco Lomoth was born in 1977 in Bremen and read Ethnology, Journalism and History at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Chile in Santiago de Chile. His Master’s thesis on the Mapuche conflict with forestry companies was funded by DAAD and published by the Leipzig University Press.

From 2002 until 2006, he worked as a student assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. He then undertook various traineeships, made possible thanks to a Science Journalism and Foreign Correspondance Programme Scholarship funded by the Dr. Alexander and Rita Besser Foundation, at the ARD correspondents’ office in Rio de Janeiro, at Geo Special in Hamburg and then at Storyhouse Productions in Washington D.C. Following this training, he became a freelance journalist.

He has been a member of the Textetage in Berlin since May 2009.

Foreign languages: English, Spanish, intermediate French.

Tel: +49-30-42091227

Email: m.lomoth(@)textetage.com

Skype/Twitter: mlomoth