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Spore Hosts: Why do we desire what others have?
Gisela Stelly Augstein and Rüdiger Safranski Talk and Reading
2. May 2024
19.00-21.00
19.00-21.00
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all ages welcome
in German
Why do we desire what the others have? A previously unnoticed toy at the playground. Suddenly, one of the children starts to play with it and the toy becomes a sought-after and even fought-over object. This phenomenon can be observed on playgrounds around the world.
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Gisela Stelly Augstein's new novel observes this desire in the world of grown-up children. "Der Fang des Tages" sees siblings and other players follow a similar impulse and fight over an inheritance.
In conversation, the writer Gisela Stelly Augstein and the philosopher, literary scholar and author Rüdiger Safranski want to broaden the novel's perspective to inlcude the social significance of imitative desire in the age of the internet and social media.
The talk will be accompanied by a reading from the novel by the actor Wolfram Koch.
Gisela Stelly Augstein, novelist, journalist and filmmaker. She lives in Hamburg.
Rüdiger Safranski is a German literary scholar, philosopher and author. He lives in Berlin and Badenweiler.
Wolfram Koch is a German actor, known for example as an investigator in the Tatort set in Frankfurt am Main.
