Thomas Escher

Thomas Escher is an information architect and freelance journalist who currently lives in New York. He reports, inter alia, for Spiegel Online. The 32-year-old German studied media and communications management at the university of cooperative education in Ravensburg, before he started with the Burda publishing house in 2004.

Bild/Picture Brooklyn Brine – The Pickle Maker

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Bild/Picture Catherine Malandrino ‒ A Fashion Fairy Tale

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