Und es geschieht jetzt - Podiumsgespräch zur Buchpremiere

In the organizer's words:

How to feel, how to think, how to speak - what happens after October 7?

October 7, 2023 - a terrible day for Jews and the whole world. Marko Martin, a frequent guest and close observer of Israel for over 30 years, attempts a seismography one year after the Hamas terrorist attack: How has Jewish life in Germany and Israel changed? How do we live with the pain, how do we talk about it? How to confront the new anti-Semitism? How to deal with the war in Gaza?

October 7, 2023 has changed Jewish life forever. How do Jews in Germany and Israel deal with it away from the charged debates in everyday life? What scares them, what gives them hope? Marko Martin talks to families and friends in Israel and Berlin. And tries to give space to their struggle with grief and despair as well as their pain about how their suffering becomes the suffering of others in a new war. It tells of Israel's vibrant heterogeneity and of its inner and outer vulnerability. It also tells of the loneliness of many young Israelis in Berlin, people who suddenly experience the Jewish primal experience of defencelessness in Germany - also and above all in a left-wing milieu that previously seemed so close to them. A book of in-between spaces and nuances, where clichés often dominate; of a society of ultra-orthodox and occupying soldiers on the one side and Tel Aviv party people on the other.

A panel discussion on the occasion of the book premiere with the author Dana von Suffrin, moderated by Sascha Chaimowicz from DIE ZEIT.

Price information:

Admission: 8 €, reduced: 5 €, members: 3 €