About me

At home between two worlds.

I’m Niklas Wessling — bilingual and shaped by living across cultures. Germany and New Zealand. Europe and Oceania.

For me, that “in-between” isn’t a contradiction; it’s a lens. It trains you to notice subtext, power, and the quiet difference between what’s said and what’s meant.

Journalism: close to the story, not blind to it.

At Germany’s public broadcaster WDR, I worked in the newsroom doing research, writing scripts, supporting interviews, and producing social-first content.

Later, I joined WDR Weltspiegel Digital as an intern, researching online formats and producing/editing short-form social pieces — with one goal: make complexity accessible without flattening it.

Politics: words have consequences.

My political experience is hands-on. Through the International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) at the German Bundestag, I worked in an MP’s office — handling correspondence, drafting speeches and articles, and shaping political statements.

It’s the kind of place that teaches you quickly: democracy depends on language that is both responsible and human.

Cinema as a Holodeck.

Movies are my holodeck: reality, rehearsed without excuses. Like Star Trek, great cinema is about ethics, power, and who gets to be heard. A camera can take a side; an edit can shift blame.

I love film because it makes politics visceral: quiet control, ordinary fear, stubborn hope. Trek gets this right—the future isn’t escape, it’s a mirror.