»Fremde Verwandschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume«

In the organizer's words:

Throughout history, we humans have developed a variety of relationships with trees, which are particularly well documented in poetic texts. In them, trees are places of refuge and memory; love and the hope of self-determination can be found under trees, as can the events of justice and injustice. As Solvejg Nitzke shows in her study Fremde Verwandschaft, trees are sentimentally exaggerated and belong to the arsenal of the uncanny. Alongside emotional charge and mystification is a brutal utilitarianism: trees are nothing but a resource, a thing, not a living being. Against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, the relationship between man and tree becomes clearly crisis-ridden and the attempts to save it dramatic. Salon host Matthias Vogel discusses arboreal storytelling with Solvejg Nitzke and asks whether literature can ultimately save trees.

Price information:

Reduced admission for pupils, students and trainees as well as holders of the HannoverAktivPass, a severely disabled or unemployment certificate. Tickets are also available in advance from the Annabee bookshop and at the Box Office.