Theresia Enzensberger und Şeyda Kurt über die Bedeutung von Schlaf

The writer Theresia Enzensberger ("At Sea") suffers from insomnia. She is not alone with this problem: sleep disorders have become a mass phenomenon in civilization. So what does someone who can't sleep do? Write a wide awake text! Following the structure of the three sleep cycles, Enzensberger takes her readers on a philosophical journey through the night. Her multi-layered essay Sleeping begins with social observations in the teeth-grinding light sleep phase, then becomes almost imperceptibly more private in the deep sleep phase until it finally advances into the dream-lost REM phase, in which Enzensberger leaves the space of reality behind in favor of a nightmarish story. She talks to author and presenter Şeyda Kurt ("Radical Tenderness") about sleep and loss of control, about the dream as a political metaphor and about forms of representation in art.