Lotta Fuhrken

Lotta Fuhrken (born 2005) has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since 2024. Not yet specialised in any one subject, she wants to get to know different areas of journalism – from print and online to audio and television. Her aim is to understand the different ways of working and storytelling techniques so that she can later choose a well-founded career path.

Contact:
lotta.fuhrken@stud.hs-hannover.de

Stories by Lotta

After dark

Learning to dream lucidly: awake in your own mind’s cinema.

Steering your dreams consciously, without apps and without hype: what sleep research knows about lucid dreaming.

A cyanotype: a photograph of a person, in blue.

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Masculinity

Thin on top

TikTok routines, rosemary oil, transplants: the market for hair-loss treatments is booming. Hair may be just hair in the end – but it’s never quite that simple.

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.

Advice

Polaroid emulsion lift: how to make little works of art with minimal effort.

Bored with your pictures? With the emulsion lift technique, you can turn Polaroids into small, unique works of art with very little effort. Explained step by step.

Silence

Seven days of silence: a self-experiment in a silent retreat

A week without a single word: what it feels like to fall completely silent – and where your own limits lie.

Reddish plastic flowers are tangled in front of a young woman’s face, symbolising a restless mind.

Award winners

On the edge of the hail of bullets.

Rafael Heygster questions society’s approach to war in “I Died 22 Times.”

Collecting

Nuclear waste in Asse II: what remains

Nuclear waste lies deep inside Asse II – dumped carelessly, barely secured. Now water is getting in. A region has been waiting decades for answers, and the country for a permanent repository.

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