The Thirty Years’ War – how does it concern us today? What does it feel like to look back at history’s bare ground, at the Schwedenlöcher? This decades-long conflict, which broke more than 400 years ago over religious influence and political domination, brought about hunger, fatalities and diseases spreading across Central Europe, yet it was also a very human war. In this first episode of our podcast, in parallel to the exhibition Bellum & Artes, we’re discussing the Thirty Years’ Wars in Central Europe and Saxony – and how the past touches on the present. By Futur 3.