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culture deepbalticMay 12, 2022 0

Baltic Partisans on Screen: Room for Improvement

"I think that in all three programmes much too little use is made of the genuine role of women in the partisan war"Continue Reading →

Latvia deepbalticApril 13, 2022 0

Black Balsam: Latvia's National Treasure Danish Island's Liquid Pleasure

A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish islandContinue Reading →

Uncategorized deepbalticMarch 3, 2022 0

Wolfskinder: Claudia Heinermann's Photos of the Surviving Wolf Children

"Around 70 wolf children were left in Lithuania at that time, most of whom were well-advanced in years. Over the years, we visited 42 of them over the course of…Continue Reading →

homeslider deepbalticMarch 2, 2022 0

Imagining Lithuania’s Wolf Children: An Interview with Alvydas Šlepikas

"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to remember it afterwards"Continue Reading →

Estonia deepbalticJanuary 19, 2022 0

Fiction: A Run-in with the Catalan in Viljandi

"For who are you for these people? I will tell you who we are for them. For the Estonians, we are just clowns."Continue Reading →

culture

Baltic Partisans on Screen: Room for Improvement

"I think that in all three programmes much too little use is made of the genuine role of women in…

People, Place and Collaboration: Unconventional Baltic Spaces of Culture

"This journey through the Baltic states delves into the small-scale, everyday and unexpected – a street art festival in Tartu…

In Latvia’s “Egypt”: Photos on Lockdown in a Forgotten Borderland

"I like working with environments where there is seemingly nothing, because then you start to pay attention to the smallest…

Life in Decline: Artists on Estonia’s Post-Industrial East

"One has to come to Kohtla-Nõmme on purpose..."

Insomnia: The Latvian Novel Unpublishable Under the Soviets

"The novel Insomnia ... possesses no artistic quality of any kind. In reality it is not a novel, but a…

The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis

"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."

Travel

Black Balsam: Latvia's National Treasure Danish Island's Liquid Pleasure

A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island

The Train Station Ateljee: Stumbling Across Estonia’s Distant History

Somehow, this display has affected me more than all the statues I’ve seen in city centres all over the world,…

Red Courland: A Guide to the Revolutionary Relics of Kuldīga

“In this building in Autumn 1905 was based the Kuldīga Revolutionary Committee”

Verilaske: In Search of a Bloodletting Estonian Village

“I have lived here all my life, and I’ve never been to Verilaske... maybe people who go to Verilaske never…

Sillamäe: Inside a Former Soviet Secret City in Estonia

Sillamäe was a ‘closed city,’ often referred to by codenames and guarded within a military perimeter – often it didn’t…

Lithuania's Ancient Heartland: Visiting the Grand Duchy's Abandoned Capital

Once the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kernavė was abandoned in the 14th century. Today, it hosts medieval…

Interviews

Imagining Lithuania’s Wolf Children: An Interview with Alvydas Šlepikas

"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…

Mapping Folklore: Mythical Creatures of the Baltics and Beyond

Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent

The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis

"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."

The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor

"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the…

"The Forest Is in Our DNA": Lithuania's Ancient Woods

"We can be proud that we have these in Lithuania, because in Western Europe these were already gone a hundred…

The Other Estonian Language: Preserving and Promoting Võro

North Estonian came to dominate in the 19th century and became the basis for modern standard Estonian, while South Estonian…