Ludwig Elias Franz, born in 1999, artist and journalist,
is involved in the initiative OMNIBUS for direct democracy in Germany. Since freeing his studies of philosophy and art from institutionalisation, Franz writes and reports on social and ecological issues at home and abroad, including Haiti, Mexico and Kyrgyzstan.
Franz writes for the Yucatan Times and Mexico Daily Post in Mexico, for Manova News in Germany and is an occasional guest on the Latin America Correspondent podcast.
…It all hinges on an impossibility. On March 23, 2023, a judicial officer of the Labor Court of the Judicial Power of the State of San Luis Potosí walked up to an apartment on Calle la Mora and handed a stack of legal papers to a man who would not say who he was. According to the officer’s own handwritten record, the man called himself “Bob DeVeros.”… Mexico Daily Post
Served to No One
Am 12. Dezember feierten viel Einwohner das Erscheinen der „Virgen de Guadalupe“ im Jahr 1531, was mit Straßenfesten und Pilgerfahrten prunkvoll begangen wird. Ein interessanter Aspekt ist dabei die Tatsache, dass die Verehrung göttlicher Personen weiblichen Geschlechts nicht mit Maria ihren Anfang nahm. Die vorchristliche Kultur der Maya kannte zum Beispiel die Verehrung der Fruchtbarkeitsgöttin Tonantzin. Wurden deren Attribute teilweise nur auf Maria übertragen? Manova news (Germany)
Das göttliche Weibliche
“Haiti is a country that is usually overlooked by the media spotlight. […] In his article [on the situation in Haiti], the author fills in some gaps in our knowledge and indirectly appeals to Western countries to respect Haiti’s independence.” Manova news (Germany)
Rebellen der Karibik
What the VW Beetle did for German-Mexican relations and how Ivan Illich would view it!
Go to article: The Economy of Conviviality
Go to interview: Video
Go to podcast: Latin America Correspondent
First impressions on site in Haiti, from Cap-Haitien!
