Rebecca Jäger

Rebecca Jäger, born in 2002, grew up in the ‘lion city’ of Braunschweig. Full of curiosity, she started doing internships at newspapers and radio stations early on. She didn’t just want to read and listen to news and stories; she wanted to contribute to them herself.

She has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since 2022. A cheerful, positive person, she brings a unique perspective to her work. She believes that behind every story there is a person and that it is important to give everyone a voice.

Rebecca’s articles:

Traces

Lost place in the Harz: the abandoned Harzgerode sanatorium.

Where children were once treated for tuberculosis, silence now reigns – a walk through crumbling walls.

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Traces

Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart

For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces – she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.

Advice

Losing motivation in a creative job: how to get your enthusiasm for work back.

Even people who turn their passion into a profession know what it is like to lose motivation. We show you why joy can turn into a chore – and the concrete steps that will help you win back your enthusiasm.

Masculinity

Misogyny in the feed: when algorithms shape reality

Misogynistic content spreads rapidly on social media. For many young women, it is no longer a digital phenomenon but part of everyday life. An investigation into quiet radicalisation, a lack of prevention and the consequences in real life.

Work

Kidfluencers as a business model: when children become a commodity

Child influencers earn their parents a lot of money – but who protects the youngest when their privacy is marketed in public?

Posed photo of a teenage kidfluencer sitting on a chair in her darkened room. She is putting on make-up for social media while looking at her smartphone, which is framed by a bright LED ring light.

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.

On the margins

‘Why would he need a raincoat? He’s got a car’

How tunnels and roads shape life on the Faroe Islands – sometimes with surprisingly dry logic.

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