Fake and facts - Big changes in Eastern Europe. Reading & discussion with Michal Hvorecký, moderated by Wolfram Tschiche

Right-wing populist parties and ideologies are increasingly gaining influence in the European Union. This is particularly evident in the example of Slovakia, where an anti-democratic political and cultural restructuring is progressing. This is being countered by initiatives for greater media literacy: Fact checks against fake news are intended to limit the impact of right-wing populist propaganda.
In September 2024, it was announced that Slovakian Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová had author Michal Hvorecky prosecuted.

Michal Hvorecky, born in 1976, lives in Bratislava. Three of his novels and one novella have already been published in German. Hvorecky regularly contributes to the FAZ, Die Zeit and numerous magazines. In his home country, he is committed to the protection of press freedom and against anti-democratic developments. Michal Hvorecký translated the novel "Daheim" by Judith Hermann into Slovakian and works for the library of the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

He will read from "Tahiti Utopia" (2021), his literary thought experiment: What would the world look like if Great Hungary still existed and Slovakia had disappeared? Hvorecký creates the scenario of a Slovakian society in exile on Tahiti - a paradisiacal island that simultaneously becomes a projection screen for loss, identity and longing.

Wolfram Tschiche, theologian, publicist and philosopher, will moderate.

Photo (c) Martina Z. Simkovicova

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An event in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Sitftung e.V.