The Constant Defense
An activist defends the barricade in Schanzen street in Hamburg during G20 Summit
July 2017
Activists celebrating the power take-over at Schanzen district during G20 summit in Hamburg
July 2017
A group of activists breaking into a power plant belonging to RWE in Neurath to sabotage
its workflow in protest against the eviction in Hambach forest - October 2018
A group of activists breaking into a power plant belonging to RWE in Neurath to sabotage
its workflow in protest against the eviction in Hambach forest - October 2018
"Ende-Gelände" activists block the coal-transportation-railway of the energy giant RWE
October 2018
"Ende-Gelände" activists block the coal-transportation-railway of the energy giant RWE
October 2018
The last treehous at Hambach forest - September 2018
An RWE worker prepares the press zone just before the beginig of the eviction
of the last treehous at Hambach forest - September 2018
Eviction of the last treehous at Hambach forest - September 2018
Hambach forest - September 2018
Bavarian police arriving to control a group of refugees for the 5th day in a row during
their protest march from Bayreuth to Munich - August 2013
A German citizen holding a sign of "go back home" towards the refugees during
their protest march from Bayreuth to Munich - August 2013
Protesting refugees holding a press conference in Berlin - October 2013
The sign says: "hungerstrike of asylum seekers, day II" - Munich - June 2013
An activist during the occupation of DGB-Haus (building of the workers union) in Munich
by protesting refugees - September 2013
An imprisoned refugee responding to a solidarity rally in front of the deportation detention in
Hannover - December 2019
Demonstraion against deportation inside the airport in Hannover - July 2019
Police clearing the way for the fascist party NPD in Regensburg - August 2013
Member of the fascist party NPD during a demonstration in Eschede - June 2020
Left wing activists try to block members of the far right nationalist party AfD to attend
the party’s general assembly in Hannover - December 2017
Police attacking the activists who try to block members of the far right nationalist
party AfD to attend the party’s general assembly in Braunschweig - December 2019
The demonstration „we are all linksunten“ against the prohibition of an internet platform for
left wing activists in Leipzig - January 2020
The demonstration „we are all linksunten“ against the prohibition of an internet platform for
left wing activists in Leipzig - January 2020
A person homages the memory of the victims of NAZI-Regime on the 75th anniversary
of the surrender of German Nazi regime - Hannover - May 2020
"Black Lives Matter" rally in Hannover - June 2020
"Black Lives Matter" rally in Hamburg - June 2020
Two activists, part of a human chain in Hannover in solidarity with the refugees
on the Greek islands - May 2020
A demonstration in Hannover in solidarity with refugees who freed themselves from
Moria camp on the Greek island Lesbos, by burning it down - September 2020
An activist during a rally against the newly introduced more restrictive abortion law in
Poland and in solidarity with the protests in many Polish cities - Hannover - October 2020
"1000 Crosses March" in Munich, a demonstration against abortion rights, organized by
christian fundamentalists - May 2019
"1000 Crosses March" in Munich, a demonstration against abortion rights, organized by
christian fundamentalists - May 2019
Lothar L., widely known face of the fast grown conspiracy movement during the pandemic standing in a pool during a rally in Hannover - June 2020
Participants of the weekly rallies by the anti-vaccine movement during the pandemic in Hannover - May 2020
The demonstration „Jetzt besetzen wir!“ („Now, we‘ll occupy!“) in Hannover in solidarity
with homeless people during winter and pandemic - December 2020
The occupation of a house to shelter homeless people by the activists of
the "Now, we'll occupy!" campaign - December 2020
The Constant Defense
The way our society organizes itself today is the result of a history full of struggles. However, it is not only a past history, but rather an ongoing process of losses, gains, moving forwards and backwards that our collective emotions and memories as a society get formed by.
We all were and are part of this process, influencing it and being influenced by it. We constantly redefine the boundaries of our society, we exclude people or get excluded. We become continuously aware of new identities in the society and based on that we reorganize ourselves. These new boundaries generate other forms and qualities of exclusion that cause the necessity of new struggles. This repetition reminds us that a society is alive, but also suggests the possibility of reapiting the painful past.
In this photo series I try to record a small part of the beauty, ugliness, joys and pains of being alive as a society.
