Navid Kermani: »Sommer 24«

The evening will take place in the lecture hall building on the Conti-Campus!

Navid Kermani has now published over 40 books: reports, essays, speeches, stories and novels. A multi-award-winning author who has chronicled world events so comprehensively and for such a long time is sure to be on top of his game, right? And shouldn't this be especially true when describing events that are already characterized as historical epoch breaks from the present? The Gaza war, Ukraine, the collapse of "the West" and its values - this is what Kermani's novel Summer 24 is about, but its narrator is no longer certain: he notes ambiguities in that summer, notices ruptures and contradictions in the increasingly shrill public debates - not only there, but also in private life. "Is there a connection between the one and the other?" asks Kermani's narrator in the novel. DLF editor and multiple literature prize juror Wiebke Porombka wants to find out from author Navid Kermani during his third visit to the Salon after 2002 and 2011.