Corona Rhapsody - is this real life?

Soldiers on the way to an exercise at a makeshift hospital in the exhibition halls in Hannover during the first lockdown.

After a long period of lockdown, Jan and Undine, who were already a couple before the pandemic, spend the first warm summer day in May 2021 enjoying the fresh air in Leipzig.

Biontech employees at the Biontech plant in Marburg show how they work on the bioreactor in cleanroom suits. From April 2021 more than one billion doses of Vaccine can be produced here annually.

In June 2020, 120 of 700 residents of a prefabricated building in northern germany are infected with corona. The city bans all residents from leaving the housing complex, imposes a quarantine and puts up fences.

Policewomen of the equestrian squad posefor a portrait during their patrol at the Maschseein Hanover, on the day when masks arecompulsory in Germany.

Despite many warnings from the authorities, countless excursionists head for the winter regions in January. Two hikers on the peak of the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz, a low mountain range in Germany.

In Hannover Exhibition Halls, a makeshifthospital has been set up in March. Whereusually trade fairs take place in Hannover,treatment facilities were created for 500Covid-19 patients.Until today it still notnecessary to open the new builded infrastructure.

Conspiracy believers and right-wingers light candles from the town hall in Hanover as a sign of protest against the current measures to combat the pandemic. The pandemic has created a large number of new enemies of the state who are not clearly right-wing or left-wing, but who all represent anti-Semitic prejudices.

Ilona W. and her husband Andreas demonstrate at a „hygiene demo“ in Hanover together with right-wing extremist conspiracy believers against the measures to limit the spread of corona. Their protective masks read "muzzle".

Due to the Lockdown Corona crisis, the season opening of the largest amusement park in Central Germany has been delayed by 2 months. On 29.5.2020 Belantis can open the gates with a new hygiene and safety concept.

In the stadium of the football team Borussia Mönchengladbach, cardboard mates were set up as a backdrop for ghost games. Fans can upload their own photos online, these will be printed on cardboard stands and placed in the stadium. At the time of the photo, about 21,000 soccer fans have participated.

In a rehabilitation clinic for patients whose bodies have been so severely damaged by an infection with corona virus that they suffer from post-covid syndrome, every morning, all doctors discuss further treatment. Since so little is known about the disease „Post Covid Syndrome“, there are no established rehabilitation measures and doctors have to try out different new things.

Soldier Adriana Helfen is a medical-technical laboratory assistant at the Institute for Microbiology of the German Armed Forces in Munich. She wears a protective suit with which the soldiers in the high-security laboratoryprotect themselves in direct contact withthe corona virus during their research.

Parents and children from two different families take a walk in compliance with the regulations of social distancing in Munic.

Since fitness studios are still closed, Max and his friend do their workout in the open air in Leipzig.

Billionaire Winfried Stöcker as developed his own Covid19-Vaccine in his private laboratories, in April 2020. He injected his DIY-Vaccine himself and his family at home. Studies by independent institutes have proven that his vaccine seems to work, his family is now immune to infections with the coronavirus. When he asked Paul-Ehrlich-Institut to register his invention for clinical study, the German authorities denied his vaccine to go next steps for approlval and accused him of a crime, because during the development phase, he did not comply with official medical protocols.

Jakob B., a schoolboy, learns on his Macbook from home during the corona pandemic. Puppy Bob keeps him company. He and his father acquired the dog during the lockdown.

One of about 400 German vaccination centres was set up in the Festhalle in Frankfurt. Before the pandemic, parties and dances were held in this hall. Staff at the empty vaccination centre chat before taking their lunch break.

Milena W. is a medical laboratory employee and is studying medicine on the side. Since the beginning of the pandemic, she has been taking swabs for PCR tests in the containers of the Bioscentia company, which are then analysed in the laboratory and tested for corona and possible mutations.

Roger P. suffers from Post Covid Syndrom. He used to be a carpenter and he worked in a centre for disabled people as a group leader. He always disinfected his hands, wore a mask, made sure that the residents did the same. Nevertheless, he became infected with Corona. Since his recovery, he has been suffering from different symptoms: chest pain, shortness of breath, anxiety. To recover, he goes to a rehabilitation clinic for Long Covid patients. His condition improves only slowly.