{"id":75527,"date":"2023-06-06T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75527"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:07:15","slug":"kaja-gerdes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/kaja-gerdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaja Gerdes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Kaja Gerdes<\/strong><\/h1>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kaja Gerdes<\/strong> was born in Aurich in 2002. After her Abitur in 2022 she did an internship at the Ostfriesen-Zeitung newspaper, where she published several articles. She then began studying journalism in Hannover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her projects she focuses on subjects that move her personally and that matter above all to her generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact:<\/strong>
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Stories by Kaja<\/strong><\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

New Work didn\u2019t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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No, Mum and Dad, I\u2019m not going to be a doctor!<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

When parents try to project their own ideals onto their children. A conversation with the author Ulrike Bartholom\u00e4us.<\/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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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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Sudden attacks, hallucinations, leaden tiredness: student Livia Sommer looks for answers in a sleep lab.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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She wants to be a parent; her partner doesn\u2019t. How Julia finds an unusual way forward through a friendship.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n In the land of the white mountains <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Jasper Hill makes visible what a century of potash mining has left behind. Caught between food security and environmental damage, an industry faces a turning point.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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