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Aron Boks liest „Starkstromzeit - Vom Leben in einem Staat, den es nicht mehr gibt“ - Lesung & Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

Starkstromzeit - Life in a state that no longer exists

How much GDR is in us? About the role of companies in the GDR and the drastic nature of the reunification years - Aron Boks uses his family history to tell the story of how much this time has written itself into their lives.

In 1995, Rolf Bültemann threw his last piece of his GDR career in the garbage. A pile of lamps that were worth nothing back then and would be worth a lot today. That was shortly before Aron Boks was born. And shortly after reunification. Rolf Bültemann was his grandfather. What is it about the lamps that Aron Boks' grandmother still talks about today? To find out, Aron Boks travels back in time. He follows his grandparents to the VEB Elektromotorenwerk in Wernigerode, a large company with almost 3,000 employees, which disappeared in its former form after the fall of the Berlin Wall and is still missed by many today. Aron Boks, who never experienced the GDR himself, wants to know what traces this state-owned enterprise left behind. And what it means for people to search for something that no longer exists. In doing so, he shows us the drastic nature of the reunification period up close. While his grandparents' dream is shattered, his parents are having the time of their lives ...

ARON BOKS was born in Wernigerode in 1997 and lives as an author, slam poet and presenter in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 2019, he received the Klopstock Prize for New Literature. Since 2021, he has written mainly for the taz and the taz.FUTURZWEI column "Stimme meiner Generation". In 2023, his book "Nackt in die DDR" about his great-granduncle Willi Sitte was published to great media acclaim.

Admission 19:30
The event will take place in the Klub (1st floor) and is not barrier-free.

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Waschhaus Potsdam Schiffbauergasse 6 14467 Potsdam

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