In early 2026, Karina visited the Sudetendeutsches Museum in Munich. She took the train ride across borders only to learn more about Bohemian history as the institution serves as an enclave of Czech heritage within Bavaria. During her visit, the museum featured an exhibition devoted to another notable native of Vratislavice/Maffersdorf, the renowned automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who grew up just some hundred years and a few hundred meters from Karina’s. She was particularly interested in comparing the Munich exhibition with the one at Porsche’s birthplace in Vratislavice, which is run by the Škoda car producing company (nowadays part of the VW concern). Whereas the Vratislavice exhibition focuses exclusively on Porsche’s technical achievements, the Sudetendeutsches Museum also addresses the political implications of his work for the Third Reich. Both exhibitions illustrate how technology and technical innovation can serve as a unifying and non-threatening narrative for interpreting the past.
