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What holds us together

The Magdeburg attack: how do you cope with the violence?

Almost a year after the attack on the Christmas market, the trial has begun – while many of those affected are grappling with racist assaults.

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What holds us together

All sweetness and light in the Ore Mountains? When staying put becomes resistance.

Altenberg in Saxony looks idyllic – until you look more closely. A portrait of a young man standing up to the rise of the far right.

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What holds us together

Life off the grid: a visit to a commune.

Breakfast by the wood stove, water from a reed-bed treatment system: how practical is a life that does without comforts?

Black-and-white photo: Jonne, 6, lays out cards for a card game in a commune’s shared kitchen
What holds us together

The Blatten landslide: when permafrost makes the Alps unstable.

When warming sets the rock sliding: how climate change is putting entire high-mountain communities at risk.

What holds us together

Record of a disappearance: a Belarusian photographer in exile.

He documented the protests, was persecuted and had to flee. His pictures tell of violence, of hope – and of holding on to memory.

What holds us together

Co-parenting: two friends, one child.

She wants to be a parent; her partner doesn’t. How Julia finds an unusual way forward through a friendship.

Julia, Ingmar and friends sit relaxed with the baby on a bed in a Leipzig flat – co-parenting
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‘A cultural middle finger to the system’.

For some, punk is long dead; for others, it’s more alive than ever: a conversation about attitude, dissent and freedom.

What holds us together

Closeness without sex: a visit to a cuddle party in Hamburg.

Clear rules, lots of mindfulness, no ulterior motives: what an evening of touching strangers feels like.

A group of people cuddling; in the foreground a man holds a woman in his arms. Everyone is in the moment.
What holds us together

Reality TV: life in front of the cameras.

Millions watch as strangers fall in love, fight and fail. But how much reality is there really in it?

A security camera on a pink wall – life under cameras in reality TV
What holds us together

‘Even citizenship no longer seems like a safeguard’.

How people targeted by right-wing hatred see their future in Germany – and whether staying still feels safe.

Portrait of Soukaina in a headscarf and hoodie outdoors – what still keeps young people in Germany?
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