Lecture announcement
Three key scenes from the book:
Michael Ende's Way Out:
The No Man's Son - The Hesitant - The Hanged Man
Speaker and author: Konrad Dietzfelbinger
Lecture and discussion
Sunday, March 30, 2025, 5:00 pm
Movimento Munich, Neuhauserstrasse 15, 80331 Munich
The son of no one
The inside of a face, with eyes closed, nothing else... (p. 49)
The Hesitant
Slowly as a planet turns, the large round table turns. ...(S. 43)
The angler
The legend of the signpost (p. 198), (From: Prison of freedom)
But - at last he recognizes his house. He has denied and abandoned this house, his home. He sees his present being, symbolized by this house. Is it even his? It no longer concerns him. "He has betrayed it because he has become a great man elsewhere." This is his guilt, which has caused him to lose his inner self. (p.49f.)
The fear of facing the big, real world and fulfilling the task placed in you, of becoming independent and free - it is precisely this fear that prevents you from becoming independent. The fear of letting go of all previous apparent securities - with the help of the veiled one it would be possible - and learning to "fall" shows you how unreliable they were. (S.47)
And he asked the light, "Who are you?"
"I," replied the light, "I am you. And now come!"
Then Indicavia bowed low and stepped over the 'threshold.
The lightning went out. (S.205)
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