Wu Ming: »UFO 78« and the Art of Collective Writing

German Book Premiere

1978: Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered. Italy competes for third place at the soccer World Cup in Argentina under the military dictatorship. The Vatican records a year with three popes. Meanwhile, UFO sightings are on the rise … The Wu Ming writers’ collective is back with an »extremely idiosyncratic but simply brilliant book between pop culture, anti-fascism, communism and the longing for an extraterrestrial presence« (Neues Deutschland).

With Wu Ming

Moderated by Janika Gelinek.

Read by Benito Bause.

The event will be held in Italian and German with consecutive translation.

In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« at Freie Universität Berlin

»UFO 78« was translated from Italian into German by Klaus-Peter Arnold.

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