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Silence

Turkey earthquake 2023: how a bereaved man is fighting for justice.

A man loses his grandmother when a hospital building collapses in the earthquake – and takes up the fight against those responsible.

Silence

‘I don’t look for silence – and yet it’s everywhere’.

A young photographer drifts through the city and discovers quiet places that hardly anyone sees.

A car park on the former Expo site in Hannover. A single car is parked in this deserted car park next to one of the many pavilions. The pavilion’s façade is covered in red tiles, and a tree stands in the background.
Silence

Peatland protection: why bogs are among our most important climate savers.

From carbon store to political issue: why wet soils matter so much for the climate – and four people who are fighting for them.

Silence

‘We want to give dying a place of the greatest possible security’.

At Hospiz Luise in Hannover, carers accompany people on their final journey – and turn fear into a sense of safety.

Silence

What is silence? Ten people, ten answers.

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

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Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage.

Simple, familiar, underrated: a photographic declaration of love to the simplest meal of the day.

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Between silence and storm surge: a hermit on the Hallig.

Nick, 48, from Berlin has swapped his old life for solitude off the coast of North Frisia. A visit.

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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.
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Toxic silence: when silence becomes torture.

No word, no explanation, no look: how deliberately ignoring someone hurts – and leaves its mark on many people from childhood.

A little girl sits on her bed with her face in her hands, clearly distressed. The room is decorated with a mural of ducks and fish. The scene illustrates the idea of toxic silence, in which emotional harm is caused by ignoring or shutting someone out.
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Shopping with autism: too bright, too loud, too much.

Glaring lights, flashing adverts, a babble of voices: for our author, the supermarket regularly becomes an ordeal.

A woman shopping in dimmed light at the Edeka supermarket at Herrenhäuser Markt in Hannover
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Sign language: the silent language of deaf people.

Deaf, but not mute: how deaf people communicate in a loud world – and what hearing people hardly know about it.

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No place to retreat: why refugee shelters lack silence.

Constant noise, no room of one’s own: how life in collective shelters wears people down – as told by a refugee from Ukraine.

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