Author: Xanthe Hall

  • The Exploding Bomb

    The Exploding Bomb

    The pain of the world is beginning to creep inside me. I can feel it. The townships. The oil wells. The children with dead eyes and guns in their hands.

  • koróni

    koróni

    20 x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, on loan

  • Lost Place: Beelitz Sanatorium

    Lost Place: Beelitz Sanatorium

    Photo tour in Beelitz sanatorium, lost place.

  • arena

    arena

    Arena complex and Spree in Berlin

  • weihnachten in berlin

    weihnachten in berlin

    Christmas market in Rixdorf, Berlin.

  • Time for nuclear sharing to end

    It is a little known fact: Germany (and four other European countries) host nuclear weapons as part of NATO “nuclear sharing”. This means that in a nuclear attack the US can load its bombs onto German (or Belgian, Italian, Turkish and Dutch) aircraft and the pilots of those countries will drop them on an enemy…

  • weissensee

    weissensee

    The Jewish Cemetery in Weißensee, Berlin

  • Afterwards

    Nights they break into our deepest sleep. A crack overhead makes us jump. Those summer storms. Glimpsing behind the curtain into the garden, we see the insistent gigantic drops splashing on the ground, churning soil to mud, blackening our carefully tended flowers. Then the drops merging to become a sheet, a waterfall, nothing like rain.…

  • Victory

    I want to live in a world of win-wins. But it seems that there is no chance, no chance at all. Like we are stuck in a never-ending boxing match in which only the opponent changes periodically. Only our strength is called for, not our love – that is our weakness. Who will be the…

  • klavierwelten – the world of the piano

    klavierwelten – the world of the piano

    Piano workshop in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin