Christian Berkel

Sputnik – Christian Berkel reads from his latest book about the traces of a life and the question of who we really are

On October 4, 1957, the first satellites reach Earth orbit. Shortly afterwards, Sputnik sees the light of day in West Berlin. He grows up between the stories of Sala, his beloved mother, who opposes reality with her own images, and his father Otto’s books. From an early age, the world becomes a stage for him, everyone seems to play a role, and how else could one understand life? As a teenager, he escaped to Paris: to the world of literature and to Annie, who taught him about desire, love and jealousy. And his return to Germany: right into the heart of the up-and-coming theater world of the 1970s. A wild period of experimentation begins, until Sputnik, like so many others, is overwhelmed by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And begins to suspect who he is, or at least who he could be. In his third novel, the author and well-known, award-winning actor Christian Berkel once again retraces his life, but even more than a look back, this story is a journey out of it into a frighteningly changed present, in which we will never understand who we are without the past.

Veranstalter: Kunstpalast, Robert-Schumann-Saal

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