Lesung mit Lukas Meisner

In the organizer's words:

On February 13, Lukas Meisner will be coming to the BUCHBOX! in Kastanienallee to present his book "Wrackmente". The reading starts at 8 pm.

Venice is flooded, Europe's borders are closed, tourists are roped down from helicopters. The fate of the sinking city becomes the fate of its inhabitants, because those who live there are stateless outside. Wrackmente tells the story of Marlène, Leandro, Dirk and Helen, prisoners of a city that is disappearing deeper into the water every day. A stubbornly written memoir of a sinking at the time of its creation, which is now.

In flooded Venice - once the epitome of colonialism and capitalism, now a symbol of mass tourism and climate catastrophe - four people try to live their lives. A life without a future. What remains when the worst fears become reality and the world blurs around us? What will remain when the ground beneath our feet liquefies, when everything sinks into the sea? And is there any prospect of salvation?

In a world without community and without understanding, new narrative forms are needed that break with the status quo, because the status quo is disappearing before our very eyes. Atlantis - that is here and now. In Europe and everywhere.

Lukas Meisner, born in 1993, is a writer, sociologist and philosopher who received his doctorate in Venice in 2023. His essay Capitalist Nihilism and the Murder of Art (Aporia Press) was published in 2020, followed by the story Earth in Heaven (Edition Halkyon) in 2021. In 2022, Meisner won first prize at the UNESCO-patronized International Poetry Competition Castello di Duino in Trieste with the poem Brennnesseln; in 2023, Das Neue Berlin published his non-fiction book Medienkritik ist links. Why we need a media-critical left. In 2024, he is a Nietzsche Fellow of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar with the literary project Fluch(t). Die Sintflut is called West, which will be published in fall 2025. Lukas Meisner lives and works in Berlin and will be the editor of the journal for philosophy and social sciences Das Argument from 2025.