Lennart Holste

Lennart Holste was born in 1995 and grew up in rural Lower Saxony. Studying social sciences gave him a theoretical understanding of social structures, cultural dynamics and political processes.

Topics: In his photographic work, he wants to integrate his sociological approach and tell stories that offer an insight into the social challenges of our time. He has been studying Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover since 2022.

Contact:
www.lennartholste.com

Stories by Lennart

What is silence? Ten people, ten answers.

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

Camping with a heart: an unusual idea to help Ukraine.

One woman, one campsite, a whole village: how spontaneous solidarity turned into lasting support.

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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.

‘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.

‘I want men to hug each other’

More and more men are looking for role models who show their feelings. Valerio, Frank, Noah and Tom do just that. Four perspectives that show masculinity is something you can shape.

‘It was raining ice, and our feet were frozen’

A personal visit to the memorial: a survivor’s voice guides us through the history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp – between grief and new beginnings.

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.

The last bastion

Lützerath has been ‘excavated’ – despite resistance and occupation. Our author witnessed the activists’ daily life and struggle up to the eviction.

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