Judith Schalansky: »Marmor, Quecksilber, Nebel«

Solid, liquid, gaseous. Three aggregate states, three texts, three attempts to approach the world and the question of what it is made of. As in Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln and Verzeichnis einiger Verluste, Judith Schalansky calmly, poetically and philosophically shows what holds this world together at its core. Her compass now leads her to marble quarries, Mexican art academies and to what you can see from here: the Brocken. Not by a direct route, of course, but as befits an expeditionist who has her eyes everywhere. Feeling her way, with detours, retreats and course corrections, as the decisive factor usually lies beyond the marked paths. Salon presenter Mariel Reichard discovers what is hidden in the thicket of marble, mercury and fogtogether with the multi-award-winning literary naturalist Judith Schalansky.