Kaja Gerdes

Kaja Gerdes was born in Aurich in 2002. After her Abitur in 2022 she did an internship at the Ostfriesen-Zeitung newspaper, where she published several articles. She then began studying journalism in Hannover.

In her projects she focuses on subjects that move her personally and that matter above all to her generation.

Contact:
Email: kaja.gerdes@stud.hs-hannover.de

Stories by Kaja

Work

New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices.

New Work didn’t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.

A young man with light brown curls sits on a folding chair against a bright orange background. He wears a burgundy jumper over a light blue shirt. He isn’t wearing proper trousers, but colourful socks with a comic-strip pattern. His legs are crossed. Beside him stands a white three-legged coffee table with a grey plant pot and a pink mug. He looks intently at the laptop on his lap and wears wireless earbuds.

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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.

Award-winning

The dying river.

Jonas Kako documents the water crisis along the Colorado River.

Sediment deposits on truck tyres on the shore of Lake Powell, photographed by Jonas Kako.

Award-winning

“Let there be snow.”

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

Award-winning

From trying to photograph the wind.

Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in Europe. Hannes Jung examines the background in his work.

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