Haus Halten
For Veto
2023







Activists occupied the house at Günderrodestraße 5 in Frankfurt in December 2022 and made it available to homeless people. Three collectives have created a home for 40 homeless people here. A visionary shelter that is on the brink. The excavators are at the door.

Picture Editor: Philine Schlick
Writer: Anne Brockmann






Dernau After The Flood
For ZEIT ONLINE
2021 – ongoing
Dernau is located in the middle of the Ahr valley in Western Germany. The vineyards reach up to the garden fences of the higher houses, and some of the vines grow down to the river bank. Dernau has its own train station, and it is known for its location on the red wine trail and its wine festival at the end of September. And now also for a flood that is considered one of the worst natural disasters in recent German history. On the night of July 14/15th 2021, eleven people died in Dernau, bridges were torn down, and buildings and cars were destroyed. Most of the houses were underwater.

What does a disaster of this magnitude do to a village where everyone knows everyone? How do you rebuild it? And what will change forever? With ZEIT ONLINE we accompanied locals in Dernau over the course of a year.

Picture editors: Andreas Prost & Dorothea Fiedler

Writers: Katrin Blum, Alexander Krex, Katharina Meyer zu Eppendorf, Sara Tomšić




Ingrid Noll
For Donna
2022
It was really nice with writer Ingrid Noll - I could chat and drink coffee with her all day. After we took pictures for about 30 minutes, Mrs. Noll noticed a few feathers of a bird in the grass. This had to be the scene of a crime, because the neighbor's cat, which she looked after while he was on vacation, liked to hunt poultry. Then we sat down again in her living room and where we chatted for half an hour about the possibilities, peculiarities, and beauties of different languages. She has also recited a poem or two by heart, noting that she sometimes feels "lost" when it comes to youth slang and that the youngsters would certainly find it "cringe" to hear her speak that way. I didn't find it cringe at all when she says "lost", it comes across very naturally to her.

Picture editor: Nina Meixner & Caroline Caesar
Writer: Nina Berendonk


20 Dinger in Büchel
For DIE ZEIT
2022
1,200 people, a bakery, an Aral gas station, this is Büchel in the Eifel – the entire still life of the village is cut through lengthwise by the main road. And then there are 20 atomic bombs. Most likely they are there, even if nobody officially confirms it.

During the Cold War, the US stationed thousands of nuclear weapons on German soil, and after the fall of the Wall, they were transported back piece by piece. But the "20 things in Büchel", as the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder once said in good Schröder German, stayed where they were - and are still there today.

Picture editor: Maria Rohweder
Writer: Florentin Schumacher


Timo Boll — Oldschool
for SZ Magazin
2021
Timo Boll is Germany’s most successful table tennis player ever. He’s a star in China, while in Germany he’s barely known.

Picture editor: Jakob Feigl
Writer: Tobias Scharnagl