Lesung mit BudeMunkWieland: 'Transit 64'

In the organizer's words:

BudeMunkWieland - that's the author and artist collective between Heinz Bude, Bettina Munk and Karin Wieland. Together they will be presenting their new book 'Transit 64' at transfer. at the end of October. Their novel takes place between fact and fiction during the Cold War in Berlin - an already crazy story that is only made more interesting by the combination of drawing and text. Pictures will therefore also be shown on our big screen during the reading. We are already looking forward to an exciting event with BudeMunkWieland!

It is cold in East Berlin when Marlene Dietrich lands in her former hometown for a stopover in January 1964. She has broken with Germany and wants to travel on to Warsaw as quickly as possible. But two men are waiting for her in West Berlin: The governing mayor Willy Brandt and his spokesman Egon Bahr want her to run against the former Nazi Heinrich Lübke in the election for Federal President. What if this had happened? On the stage of the Cold War, BudeMunkWieland develop a ludicrous story from fiction, facts and images. It deals with freedom, dictatorship, resistance, exile and adaptation and extends the 20th century into the present. (Hanser Verlag)

Heinz Bude, born in 1954, studied sociology, philosophy and psychology. From 2000 to 2023 he was Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel. Founding director of the documenta Institute in Kassel since 2020. He lives in Berlin. Carl Hanser Verlag most recently published: "Adorno für Ruinenkinder. A History of 1968" (2018), "Solidarity. Die Zukunft einer großen Idee" (2019) and, together with Bettina Munk and Karin Wieland, "Aufprall" (2020) and "Abschied von den Boomern" (2024)

Bettina Munk, born in 1960, studied art in Berlin and London. After an extended stay in New York, she has been back in Berlin since 2001, teaching at various universities. Exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Since 2011 Lines Fiction on linesfiction.de, platform for drawing and animation. Most recently "Aufprall" (2020), "Das bewegte Bild - Das Bild bewegt" (Vienna, 2018), "Fiction Or Not" (Berlin 2016). www.munkmovies.de

Karin Wieland, born in 1958, studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. She lives as a writer in Berlin. "Dietrich & Riefenstahl" (2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2015. Most recently published by Carl Hanser Verlag: "Das Geschlecht der Seele. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bert Brecht and the Appearance of the Modern Woman" (2017) and "Aufprall. Roman" (2020, together with Heinz Bude and Bettina Munk). www.karinwieland.de

Tickets for our events are available both in the bookshop and online at https://transfer-dortmund.de/veranstaltungen

Start: 20:00 / Admission: 19:30