Meet the bon vivant who lives in a forest hut he made 30 years ago

Sonnemann built his home and lives off the land, working together with volunteers in rural Germany. Photos: Harald Tittel/dpa

Most people in Germany are worrying about soaring energy prices but not Friedmunt Sonnemann, who lives in a mud hut he built himself in a remote forest.

"None of this affects me," he says about Europe's energy crisis fuelled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, having spent 32 years in the forest near Longkamp, in south-western Germany near to Luxembourg.