Talk, reading, Q&A In the seaside town of Rockport, Lucy and her best friend Fred create a nature guide about the local wildlife for a school project. After a fisherman catches a great white shark and a fatal swimming accident occurs, Lucy wants to learn more about her late mother,
Talk, reading, Q&A In the seaside town of Rockport, Lucy and her best friend Fred create a nature guide about the local wildlife for a school project. After a fisherman catches a great white shark and a fatal swimming accident occurs, Lucy wants to learn more about her late mother,
Die Demokratien stecken weltweit in der Krise. Was haben sie militärischen Drohgebärden und der Spaltung der Gesellschaft entgegenzusetzen? Francis Fukuyama unterzieht unser System einem Stresstest: Sind die Prinzipien des Liberalismus als Grundlage unseres Handelns noch zeitgemäß? In Berlin stellt er sein neues Buch erstmals in Deutschland vor und spricht darüber,
Als siebzehnjähriges Au-pair kam Jamaica Kincaid aus Antigua, das bis 1981 britische Kolonie war, in die Vereinigten Staaten. Ihre erste Erzählung »Girl« machte sie auf einen Schlag bekannt. Sie bestand aus nur einem Satz und erschien im New Yorker, für den sie später selbst arbeitete. Bilder und Stimmungen ihrer Kindheit
After the 1989 coup, a new generation of writers emerged in Sudan in the shadow of censorship and arrests who continue to write in Sudan, which became two Sudans, and abroad. Stella Gaitano’s short story collection »The Return« tells of people’s experiences during the civil war, their hopes, hard-won independence
»Die Orestie« und »Die Perser« von Aischylos erzählen von der Grausamkeit des Kriegs. Eine besondere Rolle kommt den Kriegsberichterstattern zu. Roland Schäfer liest aus den beiden Stücken und spricht über sie. Peter Stein erinnert an seine legendäre Orestie-Inszenierung an der Schaubühne 1980, an die einjährige Probezeit, an die Entstehung seiner
Germany is to become climate neutral by 2045. Can this goal also be achieved on a global scale? While the mathematician, computer scientist, and economist Franz Josef Radermacher argues for large-scale CO2 offsets that should flow into development aid, the economic expert and journalist Ulrike Herrmann calls for a farewell
In his debut, Domenico Müllensiefen tells the story of three working-class friends who struggle to find a place in society during the difficult post-reunification period. »In a very concrete way, he makes comprehensible the multiple experiences of foreign determination and loss of identity of ordinary people in East Germany, out
A project by singer Maryana Golovko and guitarist and sound producer Max Smogol from Kyiv, who met in Berlin while fleeing the war in Ukraine. Known through their joint work on film and music productions, they decided to record the album »Klangbilder«, in which they combine modern Ukrainian poetry, music,
Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin und Autorin des Bestsellers »A Visit from the Goon Squad« [Ü: Der größere Teil der Welt] erzählt in ihrem neuen Roman von der Welt digitaler Start-Ups und verknüpft erneut das Leben mehrerer Charaktere, die über Jahrzehnte ineinandergreifen. Sie zeigt die ewige menschliche Sehnsucht nach tiefen Verbindungen, nach Liebe,
A journalist gets to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan. Shortly after, he is arrested. A historian starts his journey home to Wuhan from Berlin. After a mandatory quarantine, a changed world awaits him. In his documentary novel, Peace Prize winner Liao Yiwu tells of China
The »S.C.U.M. Manifesto« is considered one of the most violent and contentious feminist tracts. The fact that its author Valerie Solanas met Andy Warhol in the year of its publication and fired shots at him a few months later has been inseparable from the reception of this text ever since.
