To kick off our new series on media habits and haunts we head to the north of Germany and pay a visit to Salon magazine editor Anne Petersen. If you're not familiar with her fine title, we rank it as one of the most beautiful in the world with its fine take on food, drink, travel, entertaining and interiors. We highly recommend you track down a copy of this elegant quarterly.
What news source do you wake up to?
The only ones twittering around my house are the birds in my garden.
Coffee, tea or something pressed to go with headlines?
The good old German Filterkaffee for me, featuring ground Dallmayr Prodomo coffee poured through my white porcelain Alfi coffee filter tower.
Something from the FM dial or Spotify for your tunes?
I share my private time in the car every morning with journalist Gabor Steingart and his Morning Briefing. Due to a lack of time, his podcast is a very good news base for my day.
What’s that you're humming in the shower?Schwanensee by Tchaikovsky (my daughter is playing it on heavy repeat on our piano). Saint Etienne’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart puts me directly into a good mood.
Papers delivered or a trip down to the kiosk?
Papers delivered please. Die Zeit on Thursdays.
Five magazines for your weekend sofa-side stack?T Magazine from The New York Times, Luncheon, British Vogue, German Architectural Digest and Brand Eins.
Are you a subscriber or more of a newsstand browser?
Depends on the newsstand. While traveling I buy a lot at airports. I also like Sautter + Lackmann in Hamburg and Do You Read Me?! in Berlin to hunt for something special. Otherwise, to make sure I don’t miss an issue, I am a very big subscriber to all magazines that I am passionate about.
Bookshop for a drizzly Saturday afternoon?
Felix Jud on Neuer Wall in Hamburg.
Sofa or cinema for the evening?
I just quit Netflix – and I don’t feel I’m missing something.
What’s the best thing you’ve watched of late and why?
My last cinema experience was The Favourite. Apart from the great actors, I loved the costumes, interiors and over-the-top-flower bouquets.
Sunday brunch routine?
Cycling to the farmers’ market for our favourite bread and buns, talking to my children and, when they've left the table, continuing to talk to my husband and reading newspapers.
What papers and periodicals will be spread out around among the ‘viennoiserie’?Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and still working through Die Zeit.
Do you still make an appointment to watch the nightly news?
No. I might watch it accidentally while at my parents’ house.
What's on the airwaves or your bedside table before drifting off?
Always a good book. At the moment Karl Ignaz Hennetmair’s diary about his time with Thomas Bernhard.