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How young people experience Corona

2021-04-12T18:50:04.143Z


The exchange year is canceled, festivals, school trips, birthday parties: the pandemic is destroying the lives of young people. Rebecca Hoppé captured the mood of those affected.


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Lilly, 13: "Everything that is out of control could be brought under control

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Photo: Rebecca Hoppé

Marla doesn't even look at the camera.

She buries her head deep in the bedclothes.

The 17-year-old had to break off her year abroad in New Zealand when Corona spread around the world.

When she got back in Germany, she was caught between two worlds, belonged to no class, didn't know what to do with herself.

She killed time for a few months, then the new school year began, then came the second lockdown.

That is even more difficult, she says.

"Everything feels so bleak." Now the girl spends a lot of time in bed, sleeps a lot, hangs on the cell phone.

The quotes and the photo of Marla come from the project »Youth in Lockdown«

the Hamburg photographer Rebecca Hoppé.

From January to March she portrayed young people, many of whom are friends of their son Dillon, 17. It all started with him.

“I looked at him and he lacked that light of life.

It was like being dimmed down, ”says Hoppé.

She saw what the lockdown was doing to her son.

The photographer wondered how other young people are doing, who should actually be in a phase of life in which they are fledgling and "dancing through life".

It is important to her to show the problems of the young people, to give them a voice.

Otherwise nobody sees them.

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Rebecca Hoppé

Rebecca Hoppé

was born in Montreal in 1976 and has lived in Germany since 1983.

In 2003 she completed her studies in communication design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.

In 2010 her illustrated book »Ballett« was published, for which she accompanied the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier for several years.

In 2020 Rebecca Hoppé shot her first short film »MMXX«.

She works as a photographer in Hamburg.

She met Greta, who is upset that teachers or parents did not try to put themselves in the young people's shoes.

She met Ebba, 13, who says: "If I watch a movie today and people go to the supermarket, I think why don't they have a mask on?" She met Nikan, who dreams of his 18th birthday big celebrate: »I want to rent something and have a big party.

With all friends, so that we are all together again.

This get-together.

People and contact.

It's such a nice feeling. ”Or Bengt, 17, who has set up a small fitness studio in the attic:“ It's a bit cold up there, but you have to make the most of this time, ”he says.

Hoppé tells how strong some young people are despite everything.

She tells of a boy who built a dumbbell out of a broomstick and of a girl who started painting again.

"I admire those who have found a way to deal with the crisis."

The crisis is causing problems for all of the young people she has spoken to, says Hoppé.

»They lack the social contacts, the spontaneous encounters.

Some stare at the screen for hours every day. ”Behind every closed door there was a person with worries and expectations of life, but he was not seen.

Source: spiegel

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