»OURS. DIE STADT«

In the organizer's words:

PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS, BENITO BAUSE

Moderation: Daniel Schreiber

A life beyond persecution and oppression in a safe place among like-minded people - a utopia? Phillip B. Williams tells of resistance and the dream of freedom.

A life in safety seems possible in 1830 in the town of "Ours", founded by a mysterious magician north of St. Louis. The town is untraceable, protected by a spell. It is a refuge for former slaves and the persecuted, for the living and the dead. But the utopian paradise begins to crack when old wounds suddenly open up and a new power invades the city.

Is it possible to overcome trauma? And isn't security inevitably based on lack of freedom? The visually stunning debut novel by US poet Phillip B. Williams is "a bold, wild, often beguiling book" (Guardian), a social novel that is as visionary as it is poetic, oscillating between reality and magic (S. Fischer Verlag, tr. by Milena Adam). The German passages will be read by Berlin actor Benito Bause.

EVENT LANGUAGES: ENGLISH & GERMAN

Price information:

ADMISSION: EURO 16.- / 10.-