Volker M. Heins
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Volker M. Heins
Volker M. Heins, born in 1957, is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard, Yale and in Jerusalem. His 2021 publication Offene Grenzen für alle. Eine notwendige Utopie was nominated for the NDR Non-Fiction Prize.
Volker M. Heins, born in 1957, is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard, Yale and in Jerusalem. His 2021 publication Offene Grenzen für alle. Eine notwendige Utopie was nominated for the NDR Non-Fiction Prize.
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Year of Publication: 2023
Volker M. Heins, Frank WolffYear of Publication: 2023
Behind Walls
»We have to bear these images«, said Michael Kretschmer, Minister-President of Saxony, in November 2021 as a response to freezing refugees at the border between Poland and Belarus. His words brought forth something that is often forgotten: borders are not just obstacles for people who want to overcome them from the outside. They also change the societies that try to isolate...