“Impossible Germany tells the story of the late Ingeborg ("Inge") Seuss, a German expat who--decades prior to settling in the American South--experienced the terror of Nazi rule firsthand as a teenager living in Nuremberg during the Second World War. Juxtaposing lines from Inge's oral histories (conducted by the artist three years before her death at age 93) with original black-and-white Polaroid photography and vivid archival collages, this melancholic, contemplative work touches on questions of national trauma, collective responsibility, and the trustworthiness of memory.” - Luke Hodges

Luke Hodges is a writer, filmmaker, and visual artist based in New York City. His work has been supported with grants and fellowships from Indie Grits Labs (2019-2020 "Real Fiction" Fellow, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Knight Foundation), North Carolina's Elsewhere Museum (2016 Media & Documentation Fellow), and the South Carolina Arts Commission (2021 Emerging Artist Grant recipient), which funded Impossible Germany.

Luke Hodges is also the author of Cump, in store.

Overprint Press, 2020

Edition of 150

Two-color risograph printed zine with double gatefold, edition of 150, saddle-stitched

10 pages