Let’s get away: Lebanon's youth on the run
Auslandsjournal
They see no prospects for themselves in Lebanon. The young middle class therefore uses their contacts to Europe because they only want to leave the corruption-ridden country.
Ultra-Orthodox: difficult path to freedom
Auslandsjournal
Jerusalems Mea Shearim neighbourhood seems like its own planet in the middle of the city. Its inhabitants consider themselves particularly pious: an ultra-Orthodox community that lives by its own laws. They all follow the rules of the rabbis.
For a stranger, it is virtually impossible to gain an insight into an ultra-Orthodox family. The reporter team succeeds, however: Yossi Saaks receives the ZDF team in a cramped three-room flat where he and his wife live with five children, the youngest still a baby. They only speak Yiddish among themselves. There is no internet or television here.
The walls of the ultra-Orthodox community are crumbling. The number of Ultraorthodox leaving the community is now ten percent. Their stories have brought the issue out into the open.
Reporter: Katrin Eigendorf
Camera: Vanessa Schlesier, Theresa Breuer
Unrest in Al-Hol refugee camp
Auslandsjournal
Tens of thousands of fighters and sympathisers of the IS terrorist militia are housed in the Al-Hol refugee camp, in north-eastern Syria. Doctors are fighting epidemics.
Reporter: Christian Sievers
Camera: Vanessa Schlesier, Theresa Breuer
Turkish and Germans
ZDFzeit
“ZDFzeit" gets to the bottom of the causes: What role is played by the politics shaped by the dispute between Turkish President Erdogan and Berlin? How does the debate about Islam and migration affect the relationship? What is the problem in everyday life?
According to a representative survey for the programme, 38 per cent of Germans consider integration a success. Among the German Turks surveyed, as many as 66 per cent feel well to very well integrated. However, almost one in two of them thinks that the relationship between Germans and Turks has deteriorated in recent years.
Frauenhäuser in Not
ZDF Zoom
Women's shelters are an important place of refuge: According to statistics, every third woman in Germany suffers violence in her partnership and almost every second day a woman dies at the hands of her (ex-)partner. Why does Germany do so little for women in need?
The ZDFzoom documentary "Women's Shelters in Need" takes a look behind the facades of permanently overcrowded women's shelters. Why do so many women in an emergency situation have to be turned away? In search of answers, ZDFzoom reporter Vanessa Schlesier meets women's shelter residents and staff, violence experts and politicians.
IS files incriminate Islamists in Germany
SPIEGEL TV
The "Islamic State" kept personal files on its fighters. New documents obtained by SPIEGEL TV and SPIEGEL now incriminate German jihadist returnees. By Jörg Diehl, Roman Lehberger and
By Vanessa Schlesier
Birthday cake with swastika: Insights into the inner life of the Freital terror cell
SPIEGEL TV
That Freital has a massive problem with right-wing xenophobes has been known for some time. But only now have the suspects been classified as a terrorist organisation. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, the Freital group allegedly carried out two attacks on refugee shelters in Freital as well as an attack on an alternative housing project in Dresden.
By Vanessa Schlesier
Suspected IS fighter tracked down in Germany
SPIEGEL TV
The second police action against jihadists within a week: investigators searched the flat of a suspected former IS fighter near Mainz. His name: Bassam S. Shortly before, SPIEGEL TV had tracked down the man after weeks of research.
By Vanessa Schlesier
Timo's hatred for refugees: The career of a right-wing arsonist
SPIEGEL TV
Some of these so-called concerned citizens also become angry or even hate citizens, namely when they completely uninhibitedly incite against asylum seekers on Facebook. One of them is Timo S. After committing several crimes, the founder of a Freital vigilante group is now on trial. Portrait of a bus driver who became a xenophobe after work.
By Vanessa Schlesier
The hate preachers from Freital
SPIEGEL TV
What kind of people are they who incite against refugees in social networks, even calling for their death? SPIEGEL TV went on a search in Freital. When asked about their motives, many of them suddenly became speechless.
By Vanessa Schlesier