Videos

A table, two chairs and an attempt to start talking to each other again. Five encounters between strangers explore the art of talking – and listening.

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.

Almost a year after the attack on the Christmas market, the trial has begun – while many of those affected are grappling with racist assaults.

Altenberg in Saxony looks idyllic – until you look more closely. A portrait of a young man standing up to the rise of the far right.

During the week Selma works at a nursery; at weekends she works the door of a club. On respect, safety and standing your ground as a woman in nightlife.

From secret graffiti sprayers to late-night table tennis tournaments: twelve short videos about people who only come alive after dark.

A degree, a job and four daughters – Dalila has combined what seemed impossible. One special source of support kept her going again and again.

Burcu, 26, on her background, expectations and what it means to shape your own life.

Graduate Maria Feck gives an insight into her working life in an interview.

Graduate Jonas Wresch talks in an interview about what it takes to work as a photojournalist.

Protect or shoot? How farmers and conservationists are struggling over the right way to deal with the returning predator.

HsH graduate China Hopson in an interview

Alexander Golandsky was a criminal biker and cocaine dealer. Then he changed his life radically.

Flexibility, timing and blind trust: how a demanding sport shapes young athletes.

Milan Lenau grows and protects rare species – and shows how much steering goes on in a famous garden.

Greta lived between the circus ring and the nightclub – and struggled with a strain that hardly anyone talks about.

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

Nick, 48, from Berlin has swapped his old life for solitude off the coast of North Frisia. A visit.

A self-built party hut, fixed rituals, the same faces: on a closeness that in rural areas sometimes lasts a lifetime.

The artist Renate Marek runs the ‘Nordstadtbraut’ in Hannover. Why profit is not what matters most to her.

Johannes Nagel broke with his life as a financial adviser to become a street musician and be closer to his children.