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

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Lando Hass visits a research project in the Central African Republic that could make a decisive contribution to preventing the emergence of epidemics.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Kassel, Vorderer Westen: a shop where things have been collected for almost a century. We took a look inside.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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The war in Ukraine has not only devastated lives and landscapes \u2013 it has also changed what many Ukrainians hope for. What are their new priorities?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Milk churn meets mixing desk: new beginnings in Poland\u2019s Podlasie <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Few places in Poland are as sparsely populated as Podlasie. While many people leave, some are building something of their own here \u2013 out of conviction and family ties.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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