{"id":75983,"date":"2023-12-19T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75983"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:32:06","slug":"thilo-koppen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/thilo-koppen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thilo Koppen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Thilo Koppen<\/strong> was born in Dresden in 2003. He discovered his interest in photography early on and uses it to show new perspectives. In his work he looks for deep emotions and stories that happen in the world around us. His focus is on documentary and portrait photography. Thilo began his studies at Hochschule Hannover in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Thilo<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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What is silence? Ten people, ten answers.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Ten very different lives, one question \u2013 captured in short, powerful video portraits.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Recommended by the editors<\/h2>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\r\n The drawer analysis: what our storage spaces reveal about us <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From odds and ends to keepsakes: a tongue-in-cheek look at what we stash away \u2013 and why.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Why no active Bundesliga professional has come out \u2013 even though clubs, associations and fans have long been flying the rainbow colours.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces \u2013 she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n New Work: the philosopher who emptied the offices <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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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 <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The library of rescued East German books <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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How a pastor in Lower Saxony saved thousands of East German books from destruction \u2013 and why one of them gave space research a crucial lead.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018The Taliban won\u2019t change because of sanctions\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Julian Busch spent months living in Afghanistan as the only German journalist there \u2013 and explains why pressure from outside achieves little.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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