Ausverkauft | Gregor Gysi - Ein Leben ist zu wenig

In the organizer's words:

The autobiography

Gregor Gysi shaped left-wing thinking and became one of its most important protagonists. Here he tells of his many lives: as a lawyer, politician, author, presenter and family man.

His autobiography is a history book that brings the shocks and extremes, the blueprints and disappointments of the 20th century to life in a very personal way.

Hardly any other German politician was so reviled, and hardly any other successfully fought his way through the thicket of hostility to become a recognized celebrity: In his autobiography, Gregor Gysi tells of his childhood and youth, describes his path to becoming a lawyer, provides insights into his relationship with dissidents and the tensions at the top of the party and parliamentary group. Above all, however, he talks about the astonishing turn his life took in the fall of 1989: The lawyer becomes a politician. "I never wanted to just run away," says Gysi, striking at the core of his character: enduring contradictions. A life and a family history that takes him from Russia to Rhodesia, into everyday court life with murderers and thieves, and includes praise of Lenin and the Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing.

"It's amazing what has to happen for one's own life to emerge at some point." Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi is probably the most amusing, quick-witted and mentally agile politician to have graced the German public stage in living memory. Without this lawyer, who already enjoyed (literally enjoyed) a reputation for a certain cheekiness in GDR times (...). " DIE ZEIT

The event will be moderated by journalist Hans-Dieter Schütt.