Stephan Sander-Faes

Full Professor of History @ UBergen | Private Account | Vintage Postcard Afficionado

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

If you're in Zadar, Croatia, on Monday, 4 May 2026, join Laris Borić and me for a book launch event of the 2nd, revised & expanded ed. of my first book, Urban Elites of Zadar, 1540-69 (Viella, 2025), at the U of Zadar (Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV., br. 2, II. kat) at noon!

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

I can positively assure you that you haven't lived if you've never gotten a serious side-eye from a bunch of sheep

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

I can positively assure you that you haven't lived if you've never gotten a serious side-eye from a bunch of sheep

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

When the Weather Outside is Frightful…let's armchair-ravel to Trieste, Italy

While there's absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of italianità all year round, one of my favourite places of all times is Trieste

Plus vintage = pre-1914 picture postcards:

https://t.co/3JZTlTwhh1

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

When the Weather Outside is Frightful…let's armchair-ravel to Trieste, Italy

While there's absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of italianità all year round, one of my favourite places of all times is Trieste

Plus vintage = pre-1914 picture postcards:

https://t.co/3JZTlTwhh1

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

@wittgenst1879 Stand heute um 8 Uhr ^_^

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Hello winter, my old friend

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

Hello winter, my old friend

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Happy #Caturday

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@RasmussenT56381 Last week (sound on)

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@RasmussenT56381 Sounds about right; seems we got started at about the same time.

Your cattle remind me of Vestlandsk fjordfe (which we source from a fellow farmer and buy directly from the producer).

Anyone reading food labels knows *why*.

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Shall we play hide and sheep?

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@RasmussenT56381 How big is your herd?

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

@RasmussenT56381 Got started two years ago: we have 1 ram, 5 ewes, and our little pet Paulie (seee below), the bottle-fed kids' favourite

[Stephan Sander-Faes @sksanderfaes]

@RasmussenT56381 Well, your highland cattle is awesome, and we, well, we raise hormone-free sheep here

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Shown is the last page of Erich Sonntag's photo album, featuring three of of his closest friends who all stayed "in the field"

This isn't to elevate anyone's wartime passing over anyone else's; it is merely to indicate that these memories persisted.

For educational purposes.

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On this All Souls day 2025, I would like to direct you to a dedicated post on my Substack, which include a few lines from a forthcoming book chapter, more about Erich Sonntag's life, and another one of his poems

https://t.co/QUODE2JB2j

See the next post for context

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Happy #Caturday

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