Dear readers,

the literasean journey continues and we are delighted to present to you the second issue of the EUF literary journal. Following last semerster’s great success with various inspiring, captivating and impressive entries of students and staff of EUF, we are exploring new shores and will also feature entries of students from Hochschule Flensburg.

In this ever-changing world, movement is everywhere and shows its different faces in our everyday lives. This issue’s theme offers our authors and artists the chance to reflect on what movement means to them, whether it be of a social, cultural, political, or personal nature, in time or in space. 

Like the waves of the ocean, Literasea is in constant motion and our Editing & Publishing team grew over the past few months. We restructured our ways of working as a team and set new goals that we want to achieve with the publication of this second issue.

We hope you enjoy reading and discovering this semester’s issue of Literasea. Maybe it will also inspire you to get creative!

Your Editing & Publishing Team

The second issue of Literasea lives up to its name. Many of our contributors found themselves standing on the shore, watching the water, the movement of the ocean providing both structure and mystery to their stories. But it wasn’t just the relentlessness of the tide that provided our writers with fodder. The elasticity of movement means the pages you are about to read are filled with interpretations of it that are in equal measures clever, emotional, lyrical and unexpected. Lucid dreams, a ballerina captured in motion forever. Ideology. Revolution. Migration. Pushing through a pulsing night club looking for her. The secrecy of wheat fields, rustling in the wind, a leaf’s drift, the moon’s ascent. The arc of a relationship from its most incipient moments, to the fury, or perhaps inevitability, of its end. We are, it seems, if nothing else, always in flux.

As this issue goes to print, the world is going through a time of particular, disquieting upheaval. Perhaps that can always be said of the planet and those who inhabit it, but to examine how we move through the world and how the world moves through us, feels at the moment more necessary than usual.

Please enjoy issue 2 of Literasea. We hope it moves something in you.