About me
Torsten Schäfer is professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, environmental journalist and wilderness pedagogist. His work is focused on climate journalism as well as storytelling and nature writing. He has received several awards and fellowships for journalism and research. Torsten was editor at GEO magazine (international edition) and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Torsten took trainings on survival education (one year) and river relations (Schumacher College). He leads a fishing club to be able to represent his river Modau legally about which he wrote his first nature writing book (“Wasserpfade”, 2021); the current book (“Die Wildnis in uns”, 2026) contains four trips to Scandinavia where Torsten investigates indigenous narratives for the project “talking salmon” together with OsloMet University. From September 2026 on, they offer an online course for relational storytelling and new narratives. Torsten also explores German river and wetland narratives since traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is one key discovery for telling new stories around climate adaptation and a good life in a cosmopolitan homeland.
