Elisabeth Weydt | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost

Elisabeth Weydt

Hamburg/Germany — Digital Journalism, Solitude fellow 2016

Elisabeth Weydt is a freelance journalist from Hamburg who works for different media companies in Germany. She also occasionally works as a production coordinator for film productions. Her big topic: civil society – where people engage in structural violence. She wishes cigarettes wouldn’t make her sick so she could fulfill the cliché of the constantly smoking journalist.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Elisabeth Weydt:

Radio Solitude #7

Good Morning Habibi

Cultural journalist Rasha Hilwi from Palestine and German journalist Elisabeth Weydt in a skype talk on the ideas of their joint podcast project »Radio Solitude«.

Radio Solitude #6

Interview with Cultural Journalist Yania Suarez

by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

»I have no real job, I have no real social life. I am free«, journalist Yania Suarez manages to laugh a lot in this conversation about the sad side of Cuban life.

Radio Solitude #4

Spanish Artist Teresa Solar And Palestinian Journalist Rasha Hilwi Sing About Love

with Teresa Solar by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

Singing songs amongst friends seems to be a normal Beschäftigung almost everywhere but in Germany. And those friends do have impressive voices.

Radio Solitude #3

An Interview with Hungarian Writer Mátyás Dunajcsik

with Mátyás Dunajcsik by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

»Reality does not have its own structure, it’s structured by the way you are thinking. And depending in which language you are thinking you are structuring reality.« An Interview with author and writer Mátyás Dunajcsik.

Radio Solitude #2

Artfail Podcast: »No Goal No Mistake«

by Elisabeth Weydt with Sebastian Daeschle

This episode of Radio Solitude features »Artfail« – a podcast by journalist Elisabeth Weydt. This time with designer Sebastian Däschle.

Artfail

No Goal No Mistake

by Elisabeth Weydt with Sebastian Däschle

This episode of Artfail focuses on designer Sebastian Däschle's current project »Cucula« that was based on misconception. He wanted to build furniture with refugees for refugees in a workshop.

Radio Solitude #1

Storytelling Night: Scary Stories

by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

Journalism

Every Morning They Wake Up

By Elisabeth Weydt & George Senga

A report by journalist Elisabeth Weydt about refugees working in the black market in Germany. The text is accompanied by works of photographer Georges Senga's project »Transit«.

Riot in the Forest

by Elisabeth Weydt

Artfail #2

»What can a mistake do?« With Project Master Jean-Baptiste Joly

by Elisabeth Weydt

Artfail #1

Into the Vast Ice

by Elisabeth Weydt with Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot

In the podcast »Artfail,« we talk about failing better at art or failing artistically outside of art. About projects that never came to be or that crashed and burned miserably.

Web Documentary

Fields of Color

by Elisabeth Weydt

In her multimedia longform »Ackerbunt,« journalist E. Weydt tells the impressive story of two sisters in the Andes growing potatoes 3,500 meters above sea level.

Digital Journalism

Become a Discoverer

with Elisabeth Weydt

Elisabeth Weydt, fellow for digital journalism, gives an insight into where her passion for stories started and new ways to tell them through digital journalism.

Feature

The World Bank System

by Elisabeth Weydt et. al

For the multimedia report by NRD, WDR, and Süddeutsche Zeitung on the world bank, Elisabeth Weydt did investigative research for ten months in an international team of 50 journalists.