First-Person War

New technology has radically transformed warfare. War is no longer just something that happens; it is something we see, and can almost experience first-hand.

War and Rhetoric

The COVID-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the rise of populism and the far right—these events share one thing in common: language is changing, and hardening. And war begins when words lose their meaning.

Studium Generale meets Lumen | Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films Triumph des Willens and Olympia stand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious.