Robin Prottung

Robin Prottung, born in Schwelm in 1995, grew up in the Ruhr. After his Abitur in 2014 he studied German and history at the University of Wuppertal (2014–2016), followed by a teacher training degree in German and sport at the University of Hannover (2016–2022). He has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since 2022. Interests: football, music, theatre, poetry, podcasting.

Robin’s articles:

On the margins

Magic on the edge of town: what remains of a childhood on the fringes.

Our author returns to the playgrounds and woods of his childhood – and discovers how sobering reality can be.

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Advice

Portrait photography: 9 expert tips for expressive portraits.

Renowned portrait photographers share their tips: how they deal with problems during a shoot, how they put people at ease and why posing is often more honest than you might think.

Final projects

The invisible threat.

Lando Hass visits a research project in the Central African Republic that could make a decisive contribution to preventing the emergence of epidemics.

Masculinity

Queer footballers: ‘It can break a player very quickly’

Why no active Bundesliga professional has come out – even though clubs, associations and fans have long been flying the rainbow colours.

Award winners

Journey along the Yenisei River.

For her work “Hiding from Baba Yaga” Nanna Heitmann crosses Siberia, as her grandmother once did.

Work

New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices

New Work didn’t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.

A young man with light brown curls sits on a folding chair against a bright orange background. He wears a burgundy jumper over a light blue shirt. He isn’t wearing proper trousers, but colourful socks with a comic-strip pattern. His legs are crossed. Beside him stands a white three-legged coffee table with a grey plant pot and a pink mug. He looks intently at the laptop on his lap and wears wireless earbuds.

On the margins

GDR garage courts: the legacy of the ‘Typ I Dresden’

On the edges of eastern German towns they stand in their thousands – once a simple parking space, today a contested piece of everyday culture.

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