Moderator: Joachim Käppner, SZ

Bestselling author Christopher Clark takes us on a journey back in time to the 19th century and into a world full of intrigue that was the undoing of two Lutheran preachers: Königsberg, once a sleepy Prussian town and home to Immanuel Kant, was at the center of a scandal in the late 1830s. There were rumors of dark erotic secrets and shocking breaches of trust.

An evening that illustrates how closely history, morality and power are linked, of moral collapse, political intrigue and human abysses. - And what consequences this still has for us today.

Christopher Clark, born in 1960, is Professor of Modern European History at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of Prussia. In 2022, he was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Bavarian Minister President at the Bavarian Book Prize.