Ausverkauft | Raoul Schrott: Atlas der Sternenhimmel und Schöpfungsmythen der Menschheit

In the organizer's words:

"In a time before writing, our starry sky was a movie theater of the night" - Raoul Schrott.

With their immense imagination, people created their oldest works of art in the stars and thus depicted their cultures. This atlas brings together 17 starry skies from all continents: from the Ancient Egyptians to the Australian Aborigines, from China, India and Tahiti, from the Inuit, Bushmen and Tuareg. Our Big Dipper was a divine parrot for the Maya, the one-legged god of thunderstorms for the Incas, a moose for the Inuit and a bier for the Arabs. Raoul Schrott combines these star legends into a unique epic of human history.

Raoul Schrott has received numerous awards, including the Peter Huchel Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize. Most recently published: Inventur des Sommers (2023). In 2023 he held the Ernst Jandl Lectureship at the University of Vienna.

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