Our team

Reinhard Ilg

Editor and agency founder and director. Degree in special-needs education, history, ethnology and Scandinavian philology in Hamburg. Journalistic training at the Danish daily newspaper Flensborg Avis; editor at the publisher NORDIS in Essen and Hamburg from 1990 until 1998. Founded the agency northern lights text & kommunikation GmbH in Hamburg in 1998. Numerous publications, including on the Nordic countries and Switzerland.  

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Christoph Schumann

Editor. Studied German philology, Scandinavian philology and philosophy in Münster and Aalborg, Denmark. Freelance Journalist at Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and trainee at Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. From 1997 onwards, travel editor in Hamburg. From 2000 until 2002 editor at the publisher Hoffmann & Campe. At northern lights since 2002.

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Nadine Kraft

Historian and cultural scientist. Trainee at the daily newspapers Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung and FAZ, before assuming the role of editor at the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung. Freelance journalist in Hamburg since 2003 in the fields of press and PR. Self-employed member of staff at northern lights since 2003.

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Hanna Gross

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Kristina Bieda

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