Extremwetterlagen - Reportagen aus einem neuen Deutschland

With Manja Präkels, Tina Pruschmann and Barbara Thériault, three renowned authors were sent out as "Überlandschreiberinnen" to explore the mood in East Germany and make hidden social rifts and tipping points visible.
"When did we realize that we were living in a new country? And how? And how do we learn to breathe against the wind that is brewing ominously and pressing into our lungs with sharp gusts?"
Since 2024, literary reportages have been written about the normalization of right-wing extremist structures and narratives, threatened cultural associations and memorials, bizarre infrastructure projects in ruined landscapes. About people who look away and remain silent, and those who do their best every day to keep breathing against the wind in the raging storm of the revaluation of all values.

The event invites you to sharpen your view of the political upheavals in Germany: on a small and large scale - and to look, listen and talk together in the light of the upcoming state elections.

When: 28.04.2026, 18:00-20:00
Where: ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage Hannover, Theodor-Lessing-Platz 1A, 30159 Hannover

With the two authors Manja Präkels and Alexander Leistner.

Moderated by Momo Kranenberg, scholarship holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

On 29.04 the same event will take place in the Direktorenvilla Celle from 18:30-20:45.