In the organizer's words:

Borowski was one of the first authors to attempt to deal with the experiences in the Nazi concentration camps in literature. His stories depict the discouragement of human beings in the tormenting situation of the camps and illuminate the boundaries between good and evil, which begin to blur when one no longer knows how long the hope of liberation will last.

Borowski's incomprehensible laconicism and clear language still reach every reader today, and no less a personage than the Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz described Borowski's prose in Stockholm in 2002 as a key to his understanding of dehumanization in the first half of the 20th century.

The writer Artur Becker has made a personal selection of Borowski's texts in order to address today's readers with a new translation and to revive the author's legacy. Shortly before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Artur Becker presents Welcome to Auschwitz (Edition W) at the ROMANFABRIK - accompanied by Gregor Praml on the double bass.

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