Benjamin Emonts will soon turn 40 and is a freelance journalist. At the moment, he mainly writes for German online magazine Zeit Online and Munich magazine for homeless individuals BISS. In his articles, he mostly covers economic and social issues. Before that, he used to work for German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) for 12 years. This is also where he completed his traineeship. In the business department of SZ, his colleagues fondly referred to him as the “Drink and Tobacco Correspondent”, due to his focus on reporting about the cannabis industry, breweries, cocaine smuggling, and precious raw materials like gold and cocoa. Raised in a quiet village in Upper Bavaria and deeply familiar with Bavarian traditions, he regularly covers the darker sides of human behaviour at the Munich Oktoberfest.