Travel reportage from Germany

34 years on the road. 105 journeys.
In words, pictures and sound.

I am Rolf Fröhling, a German journalist. For four decades I read the news for SWR television, and alongside it I kept travelling – the Yukon, the Sinai, Easter Island, until I had been to every continent. Each trip came back as a radio report, a newspaper piece and a great many photographs. This site is all of it, from 1992 to now: the texts as they were published, my own pictures, and the recordings as they went out on air.

105 journeys
7,028 photographs
12.4 hours of audio
since 1992 in the archive

The stories 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 story, with its photographs and, where there is one, the original broadcast recording.
The photographs. 7,028 of them inside the stories, and another 3,437 in the photo albums – private journeys that never became journalism.
My voice. 12.4 hours of broadcasts, exactly 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 them anyway: 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.

one journey – click to open the eight most recent

All 105 journeys Photo albums About me (German)

Questions, or interested in using a photograph? Write to rolf.froehling@gmx.de – English is fine. Everything here is my own work and remains my copyright; see the Impressum and the privacy notice, both in German.