Jana Finze

Jana Finze was born in Nienburg/Weser in 2002. In 2022 she passed her Abitur at the Gymnasium Stolzenau. After internships in the sports desk of the local newspaper ‘Die Harke’ and as an editor and presenter at the radio station ‘Radio Mittelweser’, she began studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover in September 2022.

Jana has wanted to be a radio presenter since she was a child. She is also interested in literature and languages. In her spare time she acts in theatre, spends time with her friends or travels to different cities and countries.

Since 2022 Jana has also been working as a freelance journalist for the city magazine CityGlow.

Contact:

jana.finze@stud.hs-hannover.de

Jana’s articles:

On the margins

‘People here knock on a lot of doors’.

In eastern Malmö, a neighbourhood is struggling with its reputation – and with the hope that doors will open for the people who live there.

Anas in the dappled shade of the trees in Rosengård. He wants to become a model and move away from Sweden to gain new experiences.

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Masculinity

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.

Career paths

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

HsH graduate China Hopson in an interview

Water

New shores: floating islands between art and ecology

Floating platforms like the ‘Zukunst’ in Hannover create green open spaces – a concept that is catching on around the world.

A houseboat floats towards the viewer on a calm river lined with green trees. In the background rises Hannover’s Ihmezentrum tower block.

Ideals

Wildwuchs works

Community-supported agriculture aims to make environmentally friendly farming possible. Our author wanted to know whether it works and visited a farm.

Collecting

Staging mortality: two photographers in a coffin

Two photographers lie down in a coffin and photograph each other. What sounds like breaking a taboo is an exploration of commerce and ritual – and of the question: is this allowed?

Two photographers in black sit back to back in an open wooden coffin – from the work ‘LG 500/R’ by Clara Schöttke and Antonia Teichert on funeral culture

Collecting

The king of biros: 200,000 ballpoint pens in one collection

Clicky pens, special editions, promotional freebies: Heinz-Hermann has them all. The story of the biro, from Budapest to Brockel.

Close-up of a multi-tiered shelf holding brightly coloured boxes, each filled to the brim with ballpoint pens.

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