diff --git a/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx b/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
index cce73ea..7618a7a 100644
--- a/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
+++ b/app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx
@@ -57,11 +57,17 @@ export default async function BlogDetailPage({
   const post = await getPostBySlug(slug, { draft: isPreview });
   if (!post) notFound();
 
-  // "Weiterlesen" — any other post, most recent first. Not the current
-  // one; falls back to nothing (section just doesn't render) rather than
-  // showing a fake/duplicate card when this is the only post.
-  const otherPosts = await getBlogPosts(4);
-  const nextPost = otherPosts.find((p) => p.slug !== post.slug) ?? null;
+  // "Weiterlesen" — the chronologically next-older post, wrapping around
+  // to the newest post from the oldest one. Not getBlogPosts()'s own
+  // -featured,-publishedAt order: picking "the first of the top 4 that
+  // isn't this one" made nearly every post's Weiterlesen converge on the
+  // same one or two most-recent posts (reported 2026-08-29). Sorting
+  // purely by publishedAt here instead makes every post point somewhere
+  // different, cycling through the whole archive one post at a time.
+  const allPosts = await getBlogPosts(100);
+  const byDate = [...allPosts].sort((a, b) => new Date(b.publishedAt).getTime() - new Date(a.publishedAt).getTime());
+  const currentIndex = byDate.findIndex((p) => p.slug === post.slug);
+  const nextPost = currentIndex === -1 || byDate.length < 2 ? null : byDate[(currentIndex + 1) % byDate.length];
   const seller = await getCompanySettings();
   const articleSchema = buildArticleSchema(post, seller);
 
diff --git a/app/components/About.tsx b/app/components/About.tsx
index cc0fca4..67589e2 100644
--- a/app/components/About.tsx
+++ b/app/components/About.tsx
@@ -96,21 +96,17 @@ export function About() {
       >
         <Image
           alt="Björn"
-          src="/about-author.jpg"
+          src="/about-banner.jpg"
           fill
           sizes="(min-width: 640px) 58vw, 100vw"
-          // object-contain, not object-cover — about-author.jpg is a square
-          // close-up portrait (1254x1254) and this banner is wide and
-          // comparatively short, so object-cover scales the square up to
-          // fill the width and then crops most of the height away: the
-          // face fills the entire strip, way too large (reported
-          // 2026-08-29; simulated the exact crop with sharp to confirm
-          // before switching — a plain object-position tweak only moves
-          // which part of the face is blown up, it doesn't fix the zoom
-          // itself). contain shows the whole photo at its real proportions;
-          // the empty sides fall back to the section's own bg-dark behind
-          // the image, which reads as a deliberate frame rather than a gap.
-          className="object-contain pointer-events-none"
+          // Reverted to the original wide banner photo (2448x896) per
+          // 2026-08-29 request — the real bjoern.png headshot is a square
+          // close-up that doesn't suit this wide/short strip (see git
+          // history on this line for that whole detour). Blog posts keep
+          // using the new photo via about-author.jpg; this section alone
+          // goes back to its own dedicated file, about-banner.jpg, whose
+          // wide aspect was always the right shape for object-cover here.
+          className="object-cover object-center pointer-events-none"
         />
         {/* Left gradient — from sm: up, not just lg:. Even without the
             -ml-48 overlap at Tablet, the photo sits directly against the
diff --git a/public/about-banner.jpg b/public/about-banner.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8094f98
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