{"id":76274,"date":"2023-05-31T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=76274"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:32:58","slug":"polina-schneider","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/polina-schneider\/","title":{"rendered":"Polina Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Polina Schneider<\/strong> was born in St Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1989, during perestroika, and grew up with different languages, cultures and religious beliefs (Catholicism, Judaism and Russian Orthodoxy). This socio-cultural heritage has sharpened her sense for interpersonal and intercultural communication.

After arriving in Germany, she had to fight from an early age for her rights as a person read as female and as a migrant. Eager to learn more and faster, Polina studied Chinese as a foreign language and computer science \u2013 showing that (technical) languages, computer science and women need not be a contradiction. After two bachelor\u2019s degrees in 2018, she returned to university in 2021: alongside her job as a quality and project manager in IT, she is now studying photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover.

As a member of the collectives Aura Visuals Collective, Female Photoclubs and T\u00fcrspion Magazin, she is keen to draw attention to social grievances, to help shape public debate and to make sure women\u2019s perspectives are heard in public.

Since starting her studies, Polina has exhibited or been published with Native Agency, Geste Paris, Women Art Prize\/X-Treme, L.A. Photocurator, Dek Unu Magazine, Phodar Biennale and Wortimbild, among others.

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Open around the clock, almost without staff: how a self-service shop makes village life more relaxed.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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\r\n Narcolepsy: when sleep becomes an illness <\/h3>\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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\r\n Losing motivation in a creative job: how to get your enthusiasm for work back. <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Even people who turn their passion into a profession know what it is like to lose motivation. We show you why joy can turn into a chore \u2013 and the concrete steps that will help you win back your enthusiasm.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Hannover\u2019s night angel: help while the city sleeps <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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An interview about night-time rounds through the city, encounters on the margins \u2013 and help that gets through.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The architecture of the data trade <\/h3>\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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\r\n Stuffed, squeezed, starved \u2013 body ideals through the ages <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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For as long as we have existed, there have been supposedly ideal bodies. Which proportions were flattering in the Middle Ages? And what might a modern perspective look like?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Friedrich Merz: between BlackRock and the Chancellery <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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The CDU leader presents himself as a man of the people \u2013 despite a multimillion past in the world of finance. Why do so many listen to him?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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