{"id":76848,"date":"2023-07-22T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T08:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=76848"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:32:29","slug":"elias-holzknecht","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/elias-holzknecht\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias Holzknecht"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Elias Holzknecht<\/strong><\/h1>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Elias Holzknecht (born 1993)<\/strong> grew up in Tyrol and currently lives in Graz, Austria. He has been studying photojournalism and documentary photography in Hannover since 2017 and spent two semesters abroad at KASK in Ghent, Belgium, in 2020\/21. He is a founding member of the photographers\u2019 collective \u2018What\u2019s left of Photography\u2019.

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http:\/\/www.eliasholzknecht.at\/<\/a>
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Articles by and about Elias:<\/strong><\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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Encyclopedia of Potential Truth.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Elias Holzknecht’s thesis examines historical narratives and their construction.<\/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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Where nothing seems to happen in the evening, yet everything does: young people in a village in Lower Saxony after dark.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Breakfast by the wood stove, water from a reed-bed treatment system: how practical is a life that does without comforts?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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360-degree video puts the audience right in the middle of the action. We show you how to produce immersive reportage \u2013 from the technology to the edit \u2013 and tell stories from every angle.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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