Anastasia Shvachko

Anastasia Shvachko was born in Tomsk, Russia, in 1991. She graduated in journalism there in 2013 and moved to Hannover in 2014 to study photojournalism and documentary photography. In 2018 she spent six months as an intern on the picture desk of STERN magazine. Anastasia Shvachko now lives in Hannover and works as a staff camerawoman at a film agency.

Contact
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Anastasia’s articles:

Final projects

Do svidaniya, mama.

Anastasia Shvachko explores her home country of Russia, her family and the war in her final project.

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Collecting

The world’s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures

It all began in a child’s bedroom – today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.

Masculinity

‘Being gay is not a choice’

Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. Today they live together as a couple. In an interview with our author, they talk about their path to an open life.

Masculinity

‘I was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film’

He used to march through the streets in a leather coat, carrying the Reich war flag, giving hate speeches and dreaming of the great revolution. Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.

Advice

Journalism internships: how to find a placement and write an application that stands out.

How do you find the right internship in journalism, how do you make your application convincing, and what should you bear in mind during the internship? With concrete tips from professors and students.

Five people in the F.A.Z. photo studio stage a creative scene with frying pans. At the centre: Sophie Boyer and Stefan Nieland, both doing journalism internships from the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme in Hannover. The scene shows collaboration and creative practice during an editorial internship.

Work

Taking a break – out of sight

In the back room, in the warehouse, on crates in the back yard: breaks are part of the working day – and often happen out of sight. Quiet, unremarkable, indispensable.

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.

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