Carl Hirndrehe is Xalor's editor-in-chief and lives in Flensburg, near the Danish border. Within the editorial team, he is responsible for editorial review: he reads texts with an eye to their sources, internal logic, and the questions a piece leaves open. Together with his brother André, he carries Xalor's editorial and organizational work.
His path into media began in the 1990s at a small local newspaper in Flensburg. Later he worked for a Low German weekly, as a freelance contributor for regional media in Schleswig-Holstein, and eventually in an online newsroom. There he saw local journalism searching for its place on the internet. The projects he worked on no longer exist. What remains is a way of working built on research, verification, and a clear sense of the line between observation and assertion.
Today Carl works full-time outside the media industry. At Xalor, he brings the experience of an editor without forcing every piece into a newspaper template. He asks questions when a claim sounds too smooth and gives a text room when it has found its own form. He rarely writes himself. When he does, his pieces tend to be quiet and thoughtful rather than fast-moving commentary.