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Round the port with skipper Malina Schilling

The Elbe as a cure for wanderlust

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An invitation to dine with Kitchen Guerilla

Culinary band of brothers

Koral (left) about working together and being brothers: “You know each other inside and out and can trust each other. But you can also really get on each other's nerves”.
At the Öko-Markt at Spritzenplatz in Altona the Elci's buy their groceries for the evening.
The dinner party will be very diverse: "You sit among people you don't know and a lot of courses are served in the middle of the table, intended for sharing," explains Onur.
“We met for cooking sessions at my pad in the Friedensallee and invited friends for dinner," Koral says about the Kitchen Guerilla-beginnings.
Their parents are unlearned restaurateurs as well: their father owned a mezze restaurant in Ankara, their mother in Istanbul.
They shot the Galloway cow they're using in the kitchen themselves, in a northern German meadow, and later butchered her and cut her up here in the warehouse.
Their parents were "revolutionary souls" - as a sign of respect for the spirit of resistance their parents had shown, Onur and Koral called their own company Kitchen Guerilla.
Oysters as a little culinary welcoming for the guests.
One of the many courses: a classic Portuguese one-pot dish with beans, chorizo, lentils and clams.
Towards midnight, the guests' stomachs are full and the wine-bottles empty.

A cycle tour on the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg

On the trail of art with Marco Antonio Reyes-Loredo

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Andra Wöllert

Andra Wöllert prefers writing, talking and dancing about subculture, lifestyle, music and social topics – mainly in Hamburg. Wenn she happens not to present at the radio station byte.fm or to write about the nightlife of the city for Szene Hamburg, she probably enjoys a concert, dances through clubs and music videos or sweats during dance trainings.

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André Krüger

André Krüger drinks coffee, craft beer and gin. He likes to listen to music. Mostly jazz or classical music. Sometimes he writes about all that stuff. In real life he’s a freelancer who develops digital communication concepts.

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Anika Meier

An uncomplicated woman writes about complicated and beautiful things. Anika Meier is Hamburg’s dog content specialist and loves to go for a stroll in the rain. She writes about art and social media for Monopol Magazin and for anyone who needs texts to do with books, photography, art and Instagram. When she’s not checking her phone, she reads, blogs for artefakt and plays with This Ain’t Art School on Instagram.

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Anna Weilberg

Anna Weilberg is a freelance journalist and co-founder of www.femtastics.com, the digital magazine for girl power. Together with her two colleagues of femtastic, she has written the travel guide “Hamburg for women only (which, other than the title suggests, definitely contains some tips for men, too.

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Anne Kleinfeld

After a wild youth spent in the HHV commuter belt, and small forays throughout the country, Anne Kleinfeld works as a freelance author in Hamburg. She likes things that have wit, music, and love, and she is fascinated by human peculiarities. She writes best late at night with a weird cat in her lap.

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Dirk Wilberg

Dirk Wilberg is a North Frisian who grew up in the Münsterland, has been living in Hamburg since 2010 and runs not only the digital city magazine "Mit Vergnügen Hamburg" but also a music PR agency, a label, a music publishing company and a family in the Hanseatic city.

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Imke Wrage

Imke Wrage likes best to write about art, literature and pop culture. A book is her constant companion. If you don't find her at the Hamburg Oberhafen, she's probably sitting with a woodruff-flavoured ice cream on the Baltic Sea coast – that's where she comes from, and it draws her back every so often.

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Kathrin Weßling

Kathrin Weßling is a freelance journalist and author who works for SPIEGEL ONLINE, Neon, Brigitte and many other clients. She has two books under her belt to date (''Drüberleben" and "Morgen ist es vorbei"), both of which have received excellent press and TV reviews. Kathrin Weßling lives in Hamburg and is currently working on her third novel.

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Kerstin Gressnich

Kerstin Gressnich is a freelance film maker and a social media ninja. When she's not hunting for pastel coloured postcard-like pictures (or for old city centres), she explores Hamburg's east. Her favourite places in Hamburg: Hammer Park, Zentralbibliothek, and Café Brooks.

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Kim-Lara Oswald

Kim-Lara Oswald has been living in Hamburg for two years and refuses to buy an umbrella. She likes to ask questions – to herself and others. What she loves about Hamburg: the people and the Fischmarkt at sunrise.

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Lena Frommeyer

You will see Lena Frommeyer dash through Hamburg on her bike most of the time. A journalist by trade, she searches for topics in the niches of society and surveys the cultural landscape. She has been a senior editor at city magazine Szene Hamburg for a couple of years and recently started building the new master course "digital communication" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW).

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Lisa Scheide

As a professional flavour hound, Lisa Scheide is always on the lookout for exceptional restaurants. And when the journalist isn't munching her way round Hamburg, she can be found combing through the city's cultural niches and hotspots, or with her nose in a newly discovered book.

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Lisa-Marie Eckardt

Lisa-Marie Eckhardt loves to travel the world over and write about it. However, she always comes back to Hamburg in the end. Her favourite thing is to sit on her embankment on the island of Wilhelmsburg with the sheep grazing nearby, relax and look across to the other side of the water.

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Malte Brenneisen

Malte Brenneisen is a journalist, lecturer and chose to live in Hamburg in 2009. Together with friends and family, he founded the editorial and design studio "Die Brueder" here (and in Berlin) . Since 2016, Malte is a co-editor of the English-language city magazine "gentle rain".

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Myriam Salome Apke

Myriam loves to write stories on site - about people and what drives them. Whether it be for Radio Bremen or ZEIT. When she's not working or riding a bike, Myriam is dancing through life. She always feels better afterwards. At some point she'll buy a house in the countryside. That way she'll be able to write crime novels in peace and quiet - and in the midst of cows, chicken and horses.

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Nicoline Haas

Nicoline Haas is a freelance journalist who loves writing about sustainable projects and fine, traditional handcrafts. What she loves most about her Hamburg home is that there’s a lot of water and greenery, she enjoys relaxing in the Elbpark Entenwerder and zipping around the Vierlande and Marschlande, "Hamburg's flower and vegetable garden", on her bike.

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Rudolf Klöckner

Rudolf David Klöckner is a curator, blogger and author from Hamburg who has worked for many years at the interface of art and urban studies. The URBANSHIT blog is one of the leading German-language online media in the field of urban art and street culture.

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Sascha Ehlert

Sascha Ehlert is a freelance journalist, one of the Korbinian Verlag publishing house's three publishers, and founder and editor-in-chief of the arts magazine Das Wetter. Born in Berlin, he lived for a time in Hamburg's Barmbek district and still occasionally misses shopping at the Hamburger Meile and the tang of the wind on the Elbe. Photo: William Minke

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