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‘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 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.

Masculinity

The patriarchal obsession with virginity

Older men’s fascination with teenage girls runs deep in our culture. The Wecker case recently brought it back into the headlines. Films, music and the internet fuel hypersexualisation – with far-reaching consequences.

Masculinity

Born to perform?

From engine to muscle, from horsepower to watts: a bike shop reveals how men relate to technology and status today – and whether anything has really changed.

ALL STORIES ON OUR FOCUS TOPIC ‘MASCULINITY’

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Guides

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.

Guides

360-degree video in journalism: how to produce immersive reportage.

360-degree video puts the audience right in the middle of the action. We show you how to produce immersive reportage – from the technology to the edit – and tell stories from every angle.

Guides

Overcoming creative block: why it happens and how to get back into the flow.

Creative block is frustrating – but it doesn’t have to last. Find out why it happens, what it is trying to tell you and how to overcome it step by step and get back into the flow.

Guides

Lightroom Classic: organising your photos – a simple workflow for your catalogue.

Losing track in Lightroom Classic? This guide shows you a simple workflow for importing, organising and selecting your photos quickly.

Guides

Journalism internships: how to find a placement and write an application that stands out.

How do you find the right internship in journalism, how do you make your application convincing, and what should you bear in mind during the internship? With concrete tips from professors and students.

Five people in the F.A.Z. photo studio stage a creative scene with frying pans. At the centre: Sophie Boyer and Stefan Nieland, both doing journalism internships from the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme in Hannover. The scene shows collaboration and creative practice during an editorial internship.

Photo stories

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

Hospital on wheels.

In “Diagnosis”, Emile Ducke photographs the unusual health care in the Russian hinterland.

Critique and debate

Between reasons of state and journalistic integrity.

The German-Palestinian journalist Farid Dabour on media, power and responsibility

Critique and debate

What some people see in a picture – and others miss.

Transcultural perspectives show how differently people read images – and which hidden clues only some can see.

Critique and debate

‘Why should I watch this right now?’.

TikTok researcher Marcus Bösch on attitude, platforms and why good journalism should still be seen today.

Critique and debate

Images in spite of all: photographic testimony from Auschwitz.

In his groundbreaking study ‘Images malgré tout’, Georges Didi-Huberman contradicts the thesis that the Holocaust cannot be represented. His approach to the photographs from Auschwitz sparked a controversy.

Reconstruction of a negative strip by Alberto Errera, taken in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944

Critique and debate

‘It was really lovely here!’.

Thoughts on the temporality of photography – and what Roland Barthes might have said about Nina Hagen’s pop hit ‘Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen’.

Critique and debate

The image of women – who actually decides?

An interview with photographer and author Franziska Gilli about being a woman in Italy.

Editorial team

Antonia Bretschkow

Michael Hauri

Elena Prudlik

Keidy Pech

Students and lecturers from the bachelor’s programmes in Journalism and in Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover run this digital magazine with great dedication. We keep adding new stories to the current focus topic.

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