In the organizer's words:

Karen Duve lives on a farm in Brandenburg and knows that the best stories are told through the body. That's why she wrote her longseller "Anständig essen" (Eat Decently) about nutrition in 2011. The famous novelist herself says she wanted to write a non-fiction book, but it turned out to be a coming-of-age novel because the self-experiment on which the book is based changed her whole view of life.

Ewald Frie, a historian in Tübingen, was born the ninth of eleven children in a Münsterland farming family. In conversations with his ten siblings, he reconstructs collapsing worlds in his profound book: that of National Socialism, the "cattle farmer's world" of his father, the world of "reform Catholicism in the long 1960s" and the world of youth cultures in the 1980s. In his bestseller, which won the German Non-Fiction Prize, Ewald Frie uses the example of his own family history to document the demise of a centuries-old way of life: the German peasantry.

On this evening, Duve and Frie attempt to explore the contradictions of their own way of life and what the future of life in the German countryside might look like.

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Location

Freundschaftsinsel (Ostspitze) Potsdam

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