2014, Feb 20 — 22
How can we narrate war at the start of the twenty-first century? What is it about experiences of extreme violence that makes it so difficult to comprehend and to narrate? What is the importance of describing the indescribable for the survivors and for the spectators?
Talk with Peter Geimer, Marcel Mettelsiefen und Valentin Groebner
Talk with Marcel Mettelsiefen, Kattrin Lempp und Michael Kamber. Host: Valentin Groebner
Talk with Ulrich C. Baer (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, New York), Philip Gourevitch (journalist, author, editor), Liao Yiwu (Chinese author, reporter, musician and poet) and Carolin Emcke (curator)
Panel with Carroll Bogert, Klaus Reinhardt, Jon Lee Anderson. Moderation: Carolin Emcke
Talk with Jon Lee Anderson, Ulrich C. Baer, Colette Braeckman
Talk with Ethel Grace Matala de Mazza, Karl Marlantes, Lawrence Weschler
Opening speech by Director Bernd M. Scherer and the curators Carolin Emcke and Valentin Groebner