Where coal was once sorted and "selected", words are now turned, voices are heard and attitudes are examined. The new literature format "Open Pages" opens up perspectives, promotes discourse and celebrates the diversity of literary forms of expression: from novels and spoken word to essayistic and hybrid formats. Between poetry and politics, memory and renewal, belonging and doubt, the invited authors and the audience meet at eye level - in a joint reflection on identity, responsibility and what unites or divides us.

Saša Stanišić kicks things off with his encouragement "My misfortune begins with the circuit being depicted as a rectangle" - a passionate book about responsibility, self-efficacy and the courage to get involved.