What’s happening in Leipzig? Two panels, three guests at the GfZK auditorium

Deborah Feldman will discuss her essay «For the Love of Jews» and speak about phantasms and forms of instrumentalization in German-Jewish relations.

Nora Haddada will talk about William Gardner Smith’s novel «The Stone Face» and reflect on «model minorities» in Paris in 1960 and in Berlin today.

Diedrich Diederichsen, as eyewitness, protagonist, and critic, contributes to the oral history of pop journalism and offers insight into a late-1980s schism whose aftereffects extend into today’s culture wars.

Moderated by Tobias Haberkorn and Emily Nill from the Berlin Review team. Afterwards, the Tropen party starts right next door.

«For me, like those who came before, renewal can only begin with a reckoning.» – Deborah Feldman, «For the Love of Jews», Berlin Review Reader 6 

«Man sollte einen Regenschirm mit sich führen, plant man etwa französischen Rassismus mit jenem in den USA zu vergleichen, die Apartheid Südafrikas mit der Politik Israels in der Westbank, oder deutschen Antisemitismus mit Rassismus.» – Nora Haddada, «Don’t Hate the Muster, Hate the Vergleich», Berlin Review Reader 6

«Als ich Ende der 1970er dazu kam, zunächst bei ‹Sounds› in Hamburg, gab es bereits unter uns den Konsens einer absoluten Feindschaft gegen die Großverlage.» – Diedrich Diederichsen, «Pop: Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit», Berlin Review Reader 6

All panels will be held in German. Tickets available at the door, admission 5 / 7 euros.

Fifteen new essays, reviews, and memos in German and English, 128 pages of coated paper, with artwork by Rayan Yasmineh. Buy the new reader at the venue or pre-order it here.