AUTORINNENLESUNG & GESPRÄCH: Lara Rüter – Affenliebe

In the organizer's words:

Lara Rüter presents her book "Affenliebe".

Moderation: Jakob Rauch

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They mourn and they fart, they laugh and they get angry, they want as much pleasure and comfort as possible and then stare ahead again: humans - no, apes. Poet Lara Rüter worked for years in a primate research institute. In her text, she talks radically about the apes and about herself: about the beginnings of life and about dying, about the urge for freedom and touch. In everyday life with the monkeys, the same question keeps coming up: What does it feel like to be human?

Hovering between quotes from poems, scientific questions and moments at the enclosure, this groundbreaking essay shows how writing changes the world.