Carl Hirndrehe lives in Flensburg, right at the Danish border, where quietness isn't a condition but an attitude. He is the editor-in-chief of Xalor. Every piece that gets published here passes through his hands first.
He got his start in media work in the early 90s at the Flensburger Stadtbote, a small local newspaper that no longer exists. After that he worked as an editor at De Fördepost, a Low German weekly for the Flensburg-Schleswig region, and later as a freelance contributor for various regional media in Schleswig-Holstein. No big names, no national stage. But solid craft: research, fact-checking, writing that holds up.
In the mid-2000s he moved to the online editorial team of the Grenzland-Kurier, one of the early attempts to bring local journalism to the web. The project didn't survive the financial crisis, but the experience stayed. He understood that good journalism doesn't need a format. It needs an attitude.
Today he works full-time outside the media industry. Xalor is a family project he built together with his brother André. Not a side hobby, but something that matters to him. He reads every text, checks every source, asks the questions the author didn't ask. He rarely writes himself. When he does, his pieces are quiet. Thoughtful, sometimes laconic, never rushed.
