The year 2023 was by far the warmest worldwide since records began, and temperatures in Germany have risen significantly more than the global average.
Germany is facing a serious problem: as an industrial and automotive nation, Germany must become climate-neutral by 2045. That is only 21 years away, a race against time. Economic interests, political ideologies and approaches to solutions are being discussed with increasing intensity in Germany in the early 2020s. The social climate is changing, climate activists are getting more involved and scientists are researching new and more effective solutions. How can the invisible sense of an ecological and social crisis in the country be made visible?

The photo essay describes a photographic journey through Germany and focuses on a country that is in the midst of change. What new and unusual concepts are there to curb the climate crisis? How is the landscape in Germany changing? And what does this mean for the everyday lives of people in Germany? The photo essay aims to give the viewer a sense of a country in crisis, a calm and unobtrusive testimony to change, somewhere between hope and dystopia.