{"id":75309,"date":"2025-11-10T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75309"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:30:31","slug":"michael-trammer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/michael-trammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Trammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Michael Trammer<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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Michael Trammer <\/strong>is a journalist and filmmaker from Hannover. Since August 2025 he has been an editor on \u2018Cooked\u2019, a format from the public broadcasters\u2019 online network funk. In his reportages, he likes to work in multimedia and investigative formats on exploitation, social inequality, migration and group-focused hostility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reporter, researcher and author, he has worked on productions for ARD (NDR, SWR, WDR) and ZDF, among others. He has also published in various German daily and weekly newspapers (taz, Die Zeit, RND). Trammer is a trained media designer for image and sound and studies Visual Journalism & Documentary Photography at Hochschule Hannover. Many of his photos have also been published in major German newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the journalism collective \u2018Freelance Underground\u2019, he produced multimedia reportages on the situation of refugees on Lesbos in early 2020, on the so-called Balkan route in 2021 and on the Ukrainian-Polish border shortly after the start of the Russian invasion in 2022. The reports won awards including third prize in the multimedia category of \u2018College Photographer of the Year 2020\u2019 and the Grimme Online Award in 2022. Together with colleagues, Trammer now runs the co-working space \u2018laporte studio\u2019<\/a> in Hannover, which aims to offer low-threshold access to the basics needed for journalistic and creative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Magdeburg attack: how do you cope with the violence?<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Almost a year after the attack on the Christmas market, the trial has begun \u2013 while many of those affected are grappling with racist assaults.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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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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\r\n The patriarchal obsession with virginity <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Older men’s fascination with teenage girls runs deep in our culture. The Wecker case recently brought it back into the headlines. Films, music and the internet fuel hypersexualisation \u2013 with far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Graduate Jonas Wresch talks in an interview about what it takes to work as a photojournalist.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Few systems are as invisible \u2013 and at the same time as far-reaching \u2013 as the trade in user data. What we click on, search for or visit becomes a signal in a global market that sorts people into categories and targets information at them.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Jonas Kako documents the water crisis along the Colorado River.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Armina Ahmadinia returns to the Caspian Sea. Her photographic work tells of the retreating water, the loss of familiar places and a quiet longing for closeness and home.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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