Die Welt z/erlesen Reading the world in/to pieces

In the organizer's words:

Read everything, read nothing more. A reading diary, a transcript, notes from and about a utopian, exquisite, well-read, as yet unread place. A lecture, an attempt to move forward, from a low, from a high and always into another text, into the memories of texts or the observation of the world. Encountering the world and all its events by reading, responding by reading, escaping and coming to terms with them by reading. What are you reading? I read everything and nothing, both at the same time. A lecture performance made of traces, creating further traces. Fragments, pieces of reading, scraps, networks of a (co-)divided whole (with fringes and snails). Reading as a means of transportation. Reading as a search for solidary actions, for paths and trails. An evening about z/reading life in a z/read world.

By Heike Geißler, Anna Lena von Helldorff with Charlotte Puder and with the accompanying participation of Barbara Bausch.

Cooperation event with the EXC 2020 Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, Freie Universität Berlin as part of the project READING READING.

Anna Lena von Helldorff, born in 1977, is a designer and works in an interdisciplinary and process-open manner on designs and form(at)ulations of public being and becoming - in order to ask questions and continue to do so. [What do you see, what do you think about it, what do you do with it?] She understands the practice as an interpretation, an advocacy for something - in temporary constellations and long-term collaborations [among others with Heike Geißler with Sabotique and Lücken can be read]. She is a member of the AGI, Professor of Typography (HGB Leipzig) and lives in Munich and Leipzig.

Heike Geißler, born in Riesa in 1977, is an author and enjoys working in interdisciplinary contexts and in various formations(Sabotique with Anna Lena von Helldorff and George Bele with Charlotte Puder). In 2025, the essays Verzweiflungen was published by Suhrkamp and Arbeiten by Hanser Berlin. Heike Geißler was most recently Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence at the FU Berlin and received the Klopstock Prize for New Literature, the Bavarian Book Prize and the Heinrich Böll Prize of the City of Cologne in fall 2025. Her novel Michaela Kohlhaas will be published in May 2026. She lives in Leipzig.