Antonia Röhrer

Antonia Röhrer (born 2004) has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since 2023. She grew up and went to school in Würzburg. After her Abitur she did an internship at the Main-Post newspaper in Würzburg, followed by freelance work. She spent two months at a language school in Barcelona and three months volunteering in Costa Rica to improve her Spanish. Since 2023 she has also held a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s programme for young journalists (JONA).

Stories by Antonia

After dark

Narcolepsy: when sleep becomes an illness.

Sudden attacks, hallucinations, leaden tiredness: student Livia Sommer looks for answers in a sleep lab.

Sommer sits in her hospital room. After her skin has been degreased, nurse Marie Drebing attaches the first two electrodes around her eyes so that her eye movements can be tracked. Warm light falls on her face.

Recommended by the editors

Career paths

‘With potential clients and commissioning editors in particular, it’s important to have a big, great project that opens doors.’

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

Standbild aus dem Video über die Fotografin Maria Feck

Masculinity

Masculinity can be deadly

Women attempt suicide more often – and yet 71.5 per cent of people who die by suicide in Germany are men. A search for answers.

Blurred silhouette of an upper body against an orange background

Advice

Overcoming creative block: why it happens and how to get back into the flow.

Creative block is frustrating – but it doesn’t have to last. Find out why it happens, what it is trying to tell you and how to overcome it step by step and get back into the flow.

Power and control

Circle in the air: a performance artist between the circus and the Reeperbahn

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

Award winners

“Let there be snow.”

Elias Holzknecht sheds light on the consequences of climate change in the Alps.

Collecting

Cigarette cult and cancer romance: a photobook about smoking

On cigarettes, addiction and smoking biographies: ‘Pleasure to Burn’ glorifies smoking – and is only half serious about it.

Two hands share a cigarette in an antique-looking style; flash, editorial, photography, smoking, addiction

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