Thirty-four years of going, and coming back with the tape running.

The reportages are in German.

They were written for German radio and German newspapers, and there are no English versions – translating them would put my name on prose I did not write. Three things work perfectly well without the language, though:

• The map. Every journey is a marker. Click one and you land on that reportage, with its photographs and, where there is one, the original broadcast recording.
• The photographs. 7,461 of them inside the reportages, and another 3,437 in the photo albums – private journeys that never became journalism.
• My voice. 14.8 hours of the pieces as they went out on air. German, obviously, but it is me on the tape rather than a text about me.

If you want to read the reportages: Chrome, Edge and Safari all translate a page in one click, and these are plainly written, concrete pieces – they come through machine translation better than most.