Hagen Plasswich

Hagen Plasswich was born in Celle in 1993 and has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover since 2023. After training and working in online marketing, he now aims to use photos and video to tell stories that open up socially relevant perspectives. His work focuses mainly on foreign and defence policy and on issues within Europe.

Contact:
hagen.plasswich@stud.hs-hannover.de
+49 1515 2105345
Instagram: @picture_plw

What holds us together

The Blatten landslide: when permafrost makes the Alps unstable.

When warming sets the rock sliding: how climate change is putting entire high-mountain communities at risk.

After dark

Pankower Tor: the toads missing from the building plan.

Berlin wants to build 2,000 homes here – but strictly protected amphibians are holding up the major project. A case study.

Recommended by the editors

Advice

How to create a photo series.

Ideas, tips and examples from our professors.

Photo series by Andy Happel with young people in China in reddish light.

Advice

Hannover? Go and study somewhere else.

That’s what our author thought, too. Until he moved there. Why the city is worth it once you stop comparing it with Berlin or Munich.

Comment and debate

Between reasons of state and journalistic integrity

The German-Palestinian journalist Farid Dabour on media, power and responsibility

Ideals

Behind the walls of the Rosicrucians

The spiritual community ‘International School of the Golden Rosycross’ is regarded as a sect. What ideals do its members pursue?

Collecting

‘Magic Nordhessen!!!’: a Kassel shop full of collections for almost 100 years

Kassel, Vorderer Westen: a shop where things have been collected for almost a century. We took a look inside.

Award winners

Youth in Lockdown.

In the project “Between the Years”, student Valentin Goppel deals with the effects of the pandemic on his generation.

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