Mission Lesen – Aleida Assmann, Nora Bossong und Martin Stankowski über die Kraft der Lektüre und den Nutzen großer Literatur

In the organizer's words:

"Literature is like a photo lab in which the images of life can be processed to reveal their contours and nuances. (...) Through reading, we discover that what we feel is not only ours, but universal, so that even the most abandoned person does not feel alone." This is written in a public letter dated July 17, 2024, written by none other than Pope Francis. He recommends reading Borges and T. S. Eliot, among others. And these as a universal means of training discernment, also and especially for priests in training. The literary scholar Aleida Assmann, who recently published the work "Gemeinsinn" together with her husband Jan Assmann (1938-2024), and the avowed Catholic and writer Nora Bossong, whose last novel "Reichskanzlerplatz" became a bestseller, will talk about the power of reading and books. Moderator: Martin Stankowski

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