Salome Ophelia Ziermann

Salome Ophelia Ziermann, born in 1985, trained as an educator and spent two years as the equal opportunities officer for Faculty III at Hochschule Hannover.

She has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography since 2022. In her photography, Salome Ophelia Ziermann explores regional stories and works on collaborative projects with various protagonists. Her work ‘How are you – Who you are’ has been exhibited in both Hannover and Berlin.

Stories by Salome

What is silence? Ten people, ten answers.

Ten very different lives, one question – captured in short, powerful video portraits.

‘It was raining ice, and our feet were frozen’.

A personal visit to the memorial: a survivor’s voice guides us through the history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp – between grief and new beginnings.

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The patriarchal obsession with virginity

Older men’s fascination with teenage girls runs deep in our culture. The Wecker case recently brought it back into the headlines. Films, music and the internet fuel hypersexualisation – with far-reaching consequences.

Better off unmarried?

Why a break-up is not a failure, and happiness does not depend on the shape of a relationship. Three women talk about marriage.

A newly married couple kissing: the woman in a white dress and veil; only the man's silhouette is visible, filled with a white shape.

‘My degree gave me a toolbox that now lets me develop freely as a photographer.’

HsH graduate China Hopson in an interview

Power and control

Friedrich Merz: between BlackRock and the Chancellery

The CDU leader presents himself as a man of the people – despite a multimillion past in the world of finance. Why do so many listen to him?

A man, the CDU politician Friedrich Merz, stands with his back to the camera in front of two bright spotlights. A microphone hangs above him, and a few people can be made out in the background.

Fleeing the GDR in a car boot: ‘Inside, I was still on the run’

Veronika Schneider fled the GDR as a young woman – and only realised decades later how long the fear had kept its grip on her.

New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices

New Work didn’t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.

A young man with light brown curls sits on a folding chair against a bright orange background. He wears a burgundy jumper over a light blue shirt. He isn’t wearing proper trousers, but colourful socks with a comic-strip pattern. His legs are crossed. Beside him stands a white three-legged coffee table with a grey plant pot and a pink mug. He looks intently at the laptop on his lap and wears wireless earbuds.

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