Circle in the air: a performance artist between the circus and the Reeperbahn

Robert Robinson dances to the point of pain – knowing that a single misstep could end everything he has worked for over the years.

While they were stranded during the pandemic, Circus Siola’s caravans were shot at and its performers insulted as ‘scum’. Is there no place in our society for Siola’s ‘classical old-European circus art’?

During the week Selma works at a nursery; at weekends she works the door of a club. On respect, safety and standing your ground as a woman in nightlife.

From secret graffiti sprayers to late-night table tennis tournaments: twelve short videos about people who only come alive after dark.

Floating platforms like the ‘Zukunst’ in Hannover create green open spaces – a concept that is catching on around the world.

Graduate Maria Feck gives an insight into her working life in an interview.

Milan Lenau grows and protects rare species – and shows how much steering goes on in a famous garden.

Her male colleagues earn considerably more – for the same work. What needs to happen so that equal treatment isn’t just theory?

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