Paula Baierlein

Paula Baierlein always thought she would become a scientist. In the end she had to admit that what she really loved was asking questions – first during her biology degree, now in journalism and sometimes in science communication. She has been on an icebreaker, done vox pops for MDR and weighed field hamsters for NDR.

Contact:
Email: paula.baierlein@stud.hs-hannover.de

Stories by Paula

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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Comment 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

‘With potential clients and commissioning editors in particular, it’s important to have a big, great project that opens doors.’

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

Standbild aus dem Video über die Fotografin Maria Feck

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.

‘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.

Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage

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

Gathering, not hunting: a new story of humankind

What if humanity began not with the spear but with the bag? Ursula K. Le Guin turns history on its head and makes the bag a symbol of what it means to be human.

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