For a long time I had no idea what foresters do exactly.
I thought of a dream job: being out in the fresh air a lot, strolling along forest paths with the dog, fixing a broken tree trunk here, picking up an injured squirrel there.
Then I spoke to Anne-Sophie Knop about her job for START.
At the age of 25 she got her first own territory, as the youngest forester in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Knop cleared up the clichés in my head, I learned that thanks to the climate crisis, today's job is often more crisis management than nature observation.
That foresters spend 65 percent of their working hours indoors.
That hunting and preparing for the wood harvest are also part of everyday life.
And that the job is still a dream job for Knop, despite or perhaps because of everything!
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Benjamin Ansari
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Forester Knop with bitch Henna
Photo: private
"Sometimes I felt really helpless":
As a forester, Anne-Sophie Knop feels the climate crisis firsthand.
Here she tells how she became a crisis manager at the age of 25 - and why working with Wald is still her dream job.
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Manager Franzi Kuehne
Photo: J. Konrad Schmidt
»I don't make any professional appointments before eight o'clock«:
She has a position on the board and on the supervisory board, works as a speaker and is an author.
How does Fränzi Kühne manage all this?
Here she shows her calendar and tells why she watches GZSZ to compensate.
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Helicopter pilot Schwizler
Photo: Christopher Bayfield / ADAC
“My mother regularly texts me asking if everything went well”:
Fabian Schwizler invested around 85,000 euros in his training.
Today he flies rescue helicopters in Brandenburg.
Here he talks about VIP flights in Los Angeles and which missions are particularly close to his heart.
Deputy Strack-Zimmermann (FDP)
[M] Lea Rossa / DER SPIEGEL;
Photo: Thomas Trutschel / photothek / IMAGO
"I've become much more reluctant to give quick answers":
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann went into politics over 20 years ago.
Her most important decision, however, was different.
Here she tells about it - and reveals when she would rather not have listened to her friends.
