{"id":75286,"date":"2025-06-16T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75286"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:10:06","slug":"calvin-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/calvin-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Calvin Thomas<\/strong> was born in Zwickau in 2002 and has been studying photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, together with Lio Micholka and Thilo Koppen, he published a magazine exploring East German perspectives under the name \u2018Au\u00dfenposten Kollektiv\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

calvin.thomas@web.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stories by Calvin:<\/h1>\n

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Life off the grid: a visit to a commune.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Breakfast by the wood stove, water from a reed-bed treatment system: how practical is a life that does without comforts?<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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It all began in a child’s bedroom \u2013 today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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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.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018I was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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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.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Ideas, tips and examples from our professors.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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A degree, a job and four daughters \u2013 Dalila has combined what seemed impossible. One special source of support kept her going again and again.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n A professional dancer at the limit: six and a half hours of training \u2013 every day <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Robert Robinson dances to the point of pain \u2013 knowing that a single misstep could end everything he has worked for over the years.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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