Nicolas Flessa

Nicolas Flessa is an author and journalist. As a strategic consultant, he has designed and supervised various print and online publications for cultural institutions such as the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek. In addition to training courses and workshops on communicating scientific research to a broad audience, for example for the Herder Institute and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, he is also responsible for a series of live events at the interface of memory culture, film, and literature, such as the Novemberlicht series on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

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A Latvian Valiant
A Story of a Resilient Second Generation of Exiles, Told in Rust and Peeling Paint
In 2018, Juris Bļodnieks donated a 1971 Plymouth Valiant to the Latvians Abroad Museum – it was spray-painted, inoperable and had been parked under a tarpaulin for two decades. The car tells the story of Latvian exile culture in North America, of protest, patriotism and the creative...
Marianna Auliciema
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Art in the space between
Estonian artists in exile between homeland, loss and new beginnings
Between everyday life in the camp and artistic awakening: after fleeing their homeland in 1944, Estonian artists sought ways to preserve their culture in Germany – and created art that balanced tradition, trauma and tentative attempts at a new modernism.
Triin Metsla

Nicolas Flessa

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A Latvian Valiant

Art in the space between