I photographed Peter Wohlleben before. But I did not photograph his desk. For a special magazine edition, Süddeutsche Magazine sent me to the Eifel to photograph not the best selling author himself but instead his desk, where he wrote most of his fascinating work.
"About the desk: A design Magazine" Peter Wohllebens desk in his beautiful home in the Eifel.
“I am 1.98m tall - there is no desk out of the box. On top of that, I do not like chaos on the table, because I can’t concentrate on it. So the table had to be small (so you can not put much on it), but high, a classic case for a carpenter. I found a craft shop that fulfilled my wishes perfectly. The wood came from a dead elm with traces of beetles. The wood of the table top was brushed so that I can feel the year rings when I pass my hand over it. The construction is so thick and stable that the table can still be used for generations. If I ever have a writer’s block, I run my palm over the wood, feel the old tree and usually right then I have the next idea of what I could still tell about nature.”