26 April 2024, Geislingen Dialysis Centre car park. Yvonne Zacher, 27 years old, shortly after 5 hours of dialysis, sufferer of unclear collagenosis, an autoimmune disease that attacks her kidney.

26 Mai 2023, Glückstadt. Lutz Riewe at home on his sofa with his dog, talking openly on his YouTube channel about liver cirrhosis and panic attacks, the first transplant has failed.

Project «while we wait» Text Lutz Riewe copyright Anton Vester, info@antonvester.de

25. May 2024, Paulinenkrankenhaus Berlin. Astrid Gruschke is dependent on artificial oxygen 24 hours a day. Her need is increasing because her lungs are deteriorating. The interior designer, who has been hospitalised for 3 months, is no longer allowed to leave the hospital grounds.

13 April 2024, Peine. Jacob and his mother Sonja Baumgarte in their flat. Due to pulmonary arterial hypertension, the 8-year-old boy is about to be put on the waiting list for a new lung. Once a year, they go on holiday to a children‘s hospice.

4. June 2024, Benningen. Alexander Brucker lives on the third floor. His heart, which no longer works properly due to insufficiency, regularly reaches its limits. He has collapsed several times in the stairwell. Upper scar: defibrillator operation, lower scar: probe operation.

11 May 2024, Paulinenkrankenhaus Berlin. Alisa Gilmutdinova is waiting for a new heart and lungs. The need for two matching organs is a medical challenge. And it means that Gilmutdinova has to wait a particularly long time.

Project «while we wait» Text Alisa Gilmutdinova copyright Anton Vester, info@antonvester.de

26 April 2024, Osnabrück. Svenja Wilms’ close relationship with her half-sister Araya is characterised by an awareness of finiteness. Svenja, who was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver as a result of an auto-immune disease, is dependent on a new liver. There is no replacement therapy for the liver.