Continuous attempt to live with violence as well as poetry, art pavilion

Reading with Volker Braun

"In the past, one could have left the world, simply packed up one's bags, but now there is no other world anymore; we are everywhere." With a keen eye for the interconnectedness of the world and renowned linguistic virtuosity, Volker Braun approaches the big questions that reach into the future in his new prose volume: What constitutes our present-day "everywhere"? To what forces is it exposed? And what happens when the enemies are no longer states, but storms? His journey takes him to the Eurasian landmass, to the Berlin Liquidrom, and to the Niederschönhausen Palace Park, where he is haunted by the voices of his companions.

Volker Braun's "attempts" into the abysses and contradictions of our globalized world are surprising in their complexity and brilliant in their power of language.

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