My book, Phantom Border: A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany, is ready to meet the world…and you! You can order a copy at any bookstore, at Columbia University Press, or at Amazon.
“In Phantom Border, Kerstin Lange combines personal and political histories into a powerful meditation on place. Her “structured sauntering” through modern Germany explores the lingering shadows of a Cold War boundary, brightened throughout by vivid descriptions of the people and diverse landscapes she encounters along the way.”
Thor Hanson, author of Feathers, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, and Close to Home
What might Germany’s Green Belt have to tell us about our place on earth? Some thoughts from my expedition along the remains of the Iron Curtain. Read my essay in The Revelator: There is no Border between Humans and Nature
Stories aus dem Wendland
(in German)
Das Dorf und die Welt. Über Heimat, Platz für Kunst und die Vision für ein historisches Sägewerk. Bildhauerin Chenxi Zhong.
Ihre erste Nacht in Deutschland verbrachte Chenxi Zhong in einer Bushaltestelle in München. Mehr lesen
Foto © Veronika Krebs
Stories from the Borderland
Dispatches from my expedition along Germany’s longest, skinniest nature preserve – the former border strip between East and West Germany.
Lost Worlds
Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez was at the Fleming Museum recently to speak about how as a college student in Iowa, back in 2004, he began to build miniature scenes of his native city, Damascus, to work through his homesickness. Read more/Listen
Author Jack Mayer on Lessons of the Holocaust
If you’ve never heard of Ernst Werner Techow or Walther Rathenau, don’t worry — and don’t let it keep you from reading Middlebury author Jack Mayer’s Before the Court of Heaven. Read more
