In the organizer's words:

We live in times of distance. The political camps, the world's major power blocs, the city from the countryside - everything is moving away from each other. In his new book "In der Nähe", Simon Strauß, editor of the feature section of the F.A.Z., examines the question of what holds us together today and what separates us from one another. In conversation with literary scholar Dirk Oschmann, literary reflection meets social analysis. An evening about closeness and distance, about origin and belonging and about the possibilities of literature to understand our reality. Moderator: Sandra Kegel, editor responsible for the feature section of the F.A.Z.