Moritz von Uslar, until recently a feature journalist at Die Zeit, is saying goodbye to his former life. He is leaving his social and cultural circle, the big city, and taking over his mother’s family forestry business.
Since 2024, he has been writing his blog “News from the Forest” – everyday texts, oscillating between forest and world events, between soliloquy and literary pamphlet. He writes about bark beetles, roast pork and Franconian beers, about provincial melancholy and longing for the city, bouts of despair over Trump and fits of rage over the AfD, about the local SPD branch and drives in his Subaru Forester, Adalbert Stifter’s descriptions of nature, the wisdom of the pub landlady Christl, summer evenings, winter nights, the light at 5 pm and – yes – love too.
News from the Forest is: a reckoning, a nature elegy, film and literary criticism, a longing for artistic freedom and a dual perspective – looking inwards at the specialist subject of forestry and outwards at the cultural and intellectual life of our republic.
