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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor


Was ist los in der Welt?
She wondered out loud in German, ruminating on the president elect's asseverations that are as inauthentic and ridiculous as his toupee.

Lavavoth
Jan 20, 20171 min read


Mourning on a global scale
What else can be said?

Lavavoth
Jan 20, 20170 min read


Apocalyptic Reverie: Doing the Mushroom Shuffle in Berlin
So there I went, into self-induced anxiety, combing the internet for those kinds of websites that are riddled with doomsday predictions and conspiracy theories.

Lavavoth
Jan 13, 20174 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 2: The Berlin Wall
In Berlin, Germany, a visit to the Berlin Wall becomes an encounter with World War II soldiers moving through the field, appearing without warning.

Lavavoth
Dec 26, 20163 min read


Sieg Heil Herr Drumpf and The New Nuclear Arms Race (Political Cartoons)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

Lavavoth
Dec 24, 20161 min read


Haunted Berlin, Part 1: The Flak Tower
In Berlin, Germany, the flak tower becomes a point of entry into a city where the past presses in and something unseen begins to surface.

Lavavoth
Dec 22, 20164 min read


Brandstätten: The Firebombing of Germany
Exploring the devastation of German air raids, and how the complexity of history’s shadows linger in a past life memory.

Lavavoth
Dec 18, 20165 min read


“Great Fun!”: Nazi Germany Photographs and the Unbearable Persistence of Fascism
Connecting with the ghosts of Nazi Germany via photographs to understand fascism then and now.

Lavavoth
Dec 16, 20167 min read


Antique Photo Collection: Searching for Hans’s Face in the Portraits of Others
Collecting antique photographs was a spiritual and aesthetic quest to get as close to Hans's doppelgänger as possible.

Lavavoth
Dec 15, 20165 min read


Sonke Neitzel: Mindset of WWII German Soldiers
A video interview with historian Sönke Neitzel discussing his book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, which examines secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war during World War II.

Lavavoth
Nov 19, 20161 min read


Maxxie’s Dance and Queer Representation and Beauty in Mainstream Acceptance
Maxxie in Skins dazzles as a queer icon, but his beauty raises questions on representation, objectification, and palatable homoeroticism.

Lavavoth
Sep 22, 20103 min read


Love Letters from World War 2
Purchasing WWII love letters leads to thoughts of what we’ve lost and how no one writes letters anymore.

Lavavoth
Aug 15, 20104 min read
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