LESUNG & GESPRÄCH Morgane Llanque

• Admission 18:30, start at 19:00
• There are about 25 seats. It's worth being on time, because the best seats are of course right at the front. :)
• We have a book table!

Diversity
A different history of humanity - of queer emperors, gladiators and black knights

What history is has long been decided by men from the West. But what is labeled as strange and woke today has actually always been there. This is where Morgane Llanque comes in: She tells of Roman emperors who shaved their legs, of Muslim scholars at the court of Frederick II. of women in the Andes who hunted in the Stone Age, of alliances between white Southerners and the Black Panthers and of brave samurai with disabilities. In this way, a different story of power, sexuality, skin color, faith, class and justice emerges from a global perspective. In her grand panorama of world history, Llanque emphasizes similarities rather than differences and shows how diversity and pluralism have always moved us forward. About the book!

Morgane Llanque, born in Berlin in 1994, comes from a German-Latin American family and studied history, political science and cultural journalism. She works for the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and writes for ZEIT, taz and Good Impact magazine, among others, where her column Histourismus on the history of diversity appears. She has been awarded numerous prizes and grants for her work, including the Thomas Mann Fellowship 2026. Morgane Llanque lives in Berlin.