Reading: Extreme Weather Conditions. Reportages from a New Germany.

Reading from the book "Extreme Weather Conditions - Reportages from a New Germany." Guests are Dr. Alexander Leistner (University of Leipzig) and Manja Präkels (author, political educator).

2024 saw the start of an unusual literary-sociological project. With Manja Präkels, Tina Pruschmann, and Barbara Thériault, three renowned authors were sent out as "Überlandschreiberinnen" (traveling writers) to explore the mood in East Germany, to make hidden societal rifts and tipping points visible. While Manja Präkels specifically visited civil society initiatives and hotspots in Brandenburg, Tina Pruschmann traveled by bicycle to remote regions in Saxony's Ore Mountains. Barbara Thériault worked as a local journalist for a Thuringian newspaper, and Alexander Leistner followed mental development lines, the beginnings of which can sometimes be traced back before 1989. This resulted in literary reportages about the normalization of right-wing extremist structures and narratives, threatened cultural associations and memorial sites, bizarre infrastructure projects in ruined landscapes. About people who look away and remain silent, and those who do their best every day to breathe against the wind in the raging storm of the revaluation of all values.

The garden café at the D5 Culture and Citizen Center (Domplatz 5) is open from 3 PM to 6 PM. Cake, coffee, and cold drinks are available.