Saskia Stöhr

Saskia Stöhr was born in Aurich in 1995. After leaving school with a focus on art, she trained as a portrait photographer from 2015, with the school-based part of her training at the Photo + Medien Landesberufsschule in Kiel.
After a year as a qualified photographer at the studio where she had trained, she studied ‘Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography’ at Hochschule Hannover from 2018 to 2024.

Contact:

Website: www.saskiastoehrfotografie.de
Instagram: @saskia_stoehr

Saskia’s articles:

Power and control

Modern witches: how a musician finds empowerment in witchcraft.

Between the stage and spells: how a young woman draws new strength from magic and community.

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Collecting

The world’s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures

It all began in a child’s bedroom – today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.

Masculinity

‘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 was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film’

He used to march through the streets in a leather coat, carrying the Reich war flag, giving hate speeches and dreaming of the great revolution. Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.

Collecting

Habibi Funk: on exploitation and musical heritage

What does cultural responsibility mean in the music business? A Berlin label is giving forgotten Arabic music a stage – and asking who that heritage belongs to.

Collecting

The king of biros: 200,000 ballpoint pens in one collection

Clicky pens, special editions, promotional freebies: Heinz-Hermann has them all. The story of the biro, from Budapest to Brockel.

Close-up of a multi-tiered shelf holding brightly coloured boxes, each filled to the brim with ballpoint pens.

Collecting

Hannover’s hidden source of raw materials: recycling at the Nordhafen

Uncertain trade routes, wars and new regulations are putting the recycling industry to the test. At the TSR site in Hannover’s Nordhafen, a whole sector can be seen changing.

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