Lea Horvat
@leahorvat.bsky.social
@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social co-founder and editor
lecturer at Uni Jena: coffee, gender, labor in the Habsburg South
PhD (Uni Hamburg): cultural history of Yu mass housing
Berlin/Jena, she/sie/ona
lecturer at Uni Jena: coffee, gender, labor in the Habsburg South
PhD (Uni Hamburg): cultural history of Yu mass housing
Berlin/Jena, she/sie/ona
10 min before my very first job interview for a permanent uni position - no matter what the outcome will be, good to know that I can do this without crumbling under stress!
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
10 min before my very first job interview for a permanent uni position - no matter what the outcome will be, good to know that I can do this without crumbling under stress!
Reading for the session on seating in transportation: W. Schivelbusch on train compartment, S. Weiß on airplane seat design, and one of my favorite pieces by R. Gay on public seating and fatness
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reading for the session on seating in transportation: W. Schivelbusch on train compartment, S. Weiß on airplane seat design, and one of my favorite pieces by R. Gay on public seating and fatness
Last week I enjoyed a much-needed research trip at the Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg, exploring promising avenues for my second book. As I work through the material and write, it is exciting to see its contours more clearly.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Last week I enjoyed a much-needed research trip at the Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg, exploring promising avenues for my second book. As I work through the material and write, it is exciting to see its contours more clearly.
I recently saw a list of the first members of the Croatian Mountaineering Association:a group of prominent men (scientists, politicians, artists) who used the outdoors as a space to develop their relationships and networks.
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I recently saw a list of the first members of the Croatian Mountaineering Association:a group of prominent men (scientists, politicians, artists) who used the outdoors as a space to develop their relationships and networks.
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
www.matica.hr/media/upload...
My Vokabelheft from 2013, when I moved to Germany - many common words in it - to show the students that you can improve your language skills (in their case english) as an adult. Funny to see "scheitern" ("to fail") on the list - but can you really fail if you don't even know the word for it?
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
My Vokabelheft from 2013, when I moved to Germany - many common words in it - to show the students that you can improve your language skills (in their case english) as an adult. Funny to see "scheitern" ("to fail") on the list - but can you really fail if you don't even know the word for it?
No matter how many times I tell her she could just reuse a cardboard box, she insists on buying an official one at the post office, "to be on the safe side" 🥹
September 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
No matter how many times I tell her she could just reuse a cardboard box, she insists on buying an official one at the post office, "to be on the safe side" 🥹
my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia
September 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia
Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture
September 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture
1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸
August 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸
a bit like this meme
July 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
a bit like this meme
Every body is a summer body, but not every inbox is a summer inbox ☀️🌊
July 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Every body is a summer body, but not every inbox is a summer inbox ☀️🌊
My neighbor (single mom from 🇺🇦) had an injury, so I walk her kid to school together with mine (+kids play after school) She is always profusely thanking me. Today, her toddler echoed her words: "danke, danke". Reminded me of @enaselimo.bsky.social stellar piece Counting Change:
tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn
tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn
June 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My neighbor (single mom from 🇺🇦) had an injury, so I walk her kid to school together with mine (+kids play after school) She is always profusely thanking me. Today, her toddler echoed her words: "danke, danke". Reminded me of @enaselimo.bsky.social stellar piece Counting Change:
tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn
tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn
The true meaning of the phrase “marriage of convenience”: my husband is in charge of foods I never make (kimchi, pickles, sourdough pizza & focaccia) and vice versa
May 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The true meaning of the phrase “marriage of convenience”: my husband is in charge of foods I never make (kimchi, pickles, sourdough pizza & focaccia) and vice versa
My favorite accommodation in Jena: Plattenbau with a forest view, 48 EUR/night with breakfast, great bus connection (every few minutes) and no risk of stumbling into other Uni employees
May 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My favorite accommodation in Jena: Plattenbau with a forest view, 48 EUR/night with breakfast, great bus connection (every few minutes) and no risk of stumbling into other Uni employees
structure of feeling: working on my habilitation while facing the tenure-track train
#ichbinhanna
#ichbinhanna
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
structure of feeling: working on my habilitation while facing the tenure-track train
#ichbinhanna
#ichbinhanna
Monday commuting mood 😵💫
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Monday commuting mood 😵💫
A day packed witg Deutsche Bahn fails, so I gave up on train office;
instead: reading and 🪢
instead: reading and 🪢
May 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A day packed witg Deutsche Bahn fails, so I gave up on train office;
instead: reading and 🪢
instead: reading and 🪢
For the movie x pizza night, the group chose Martin u oblacima - a Yugoslav film about a couple longing for an apartment (and ultimately not getting one) + highlighting Zagreb’s public and commercial spaces.
May 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For the movie x pizza night, the group chose Martin u oblacima - a Yugoslav film about a couple longing for an apartment (and ultimately not getting one) + highlighting Zagreb’s public and commercial spaces.
I find it always a bit sad to see these illusionistic paintings on 20th c mass housing in Brandenburg (here: Angermünde, Erkner, Strausberg), as if there's something to hide and the cover-up has to be cheap (just paint), often suggesting another place: "I'm harmless and basically not here"
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I find it always a bit sad to see these illusionistic paintings on 20th c mass housing in Brandenburg (here: Angermünde, Erkner, Strausberg), as if there's something to hide and the cover-up has to be cheap (just paint), often suggesting another place: "I'm harmless and basically not here"
Small kindnesses: my daughter forgot her beloved backpack under her S-Bahn seat, but someone made the effort to bring it to the lost-and-found office and it's ready to be picked up 🥹
a few weeks ago, someone found my phone on the ICE train; two happy returns!
a few weeks ago, someone found my phone on the ICE train; two happy returns!
April 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Small kindnesses: my daughter forgot her beloved backpack under her S-Bahn seat, but someone made the effort to bring it to the lost-and-found office and it's ready to be picked up 🥹
a few weeks ago, someone found my phone on the ICE train; two happy returns!
a few weeks ago, someone found my phone on the ICE train; two happy returns!
Like every Easter, honoring my grandparents
April 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Like every Easter, honoring my grandparents
The kind of nonfiction books I enjoy most: little cultural histories of urban ephemera (garbage bins, street pavements, city lanterns, kiosks...)
April 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The kind of nonfiction books I enjoy most: little cultural histories of urban ephemera (garbage bins, street pavements, city lanterns, kiosks...)
Alternative for Thuringia
April 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Alternative for Thuringia
Small administrative pleasures: finding a Moodle cover for my excursion seminar that actually works in this elongated format!
April 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Small administrative pleasures: finding a Moodle cover for my excursion seminar that actually works in this elongated format!