Amelie Arras

Amelie Arras, born in Hameln in 2003, studies journalism at Hochschule Hannover. Sport plays a big part in her life – and in her journalism, too, whether in print, online or video. What Amelie finds most exciting are the stories behind the stories: the personal, emotional moments that bring people and their experiences to life.

Email: aa2003@gmx.de

Stories by Amelie:

Masculinity

Queer footballers: ‘It can break a player very quickly’.

Why no active Bundesliga professional has come out – even though clubs, associations and fans have long been flying the rainbow colours.

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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.

Water

Cold and deep: how water shapes Iceland’s culture

Surrounded by ocean, criss-crossed by glaciers, enlivened by hot springs: one element shapes the identity of an entire nation.

Masculinity

Queer footballers: ‘It can break a player very quickly’

Why no active Bundesliga professional has come out – even though clubs, associations and fans have long been flying the rainbow colours.

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?

On the margins

Nordhorn Range: ‘There’s nothing we can do about it, in court or otherwise’

For years, residents have been protesting against low-flying jets and bombing practice – and keep coming up against limits.

A soldier in camouflage uniform works at a computer in the control room of the Nordhorn Range, a military firing range. Another soldier can be seen at a different workstation in the background, while large windows look out over the site and the surrounding landscape.

Power and control

‘The Taliban won’t change because of sanctions’

Julian Busch spent months living in Afghanistan as the only German journalist there – and explains why pressure from outside achieves little.

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