Sasha Filipenko – Talk about Elephants, Politics and Other Obstacles

Description

Elephants everywhere! But people carry on with their lives, pretending nothing has changed. Only the stand-up comedian Pawel refuses to remain silent and calls on people to face reality. In doing so, he risks everything: his life, his freedom and, above all, his love for Anna. Sasha Filipenko knows what it is like to live under a dictatorship. Two criminal cases are pending against him in Belarus; he now lives in Switzerland. The charge: «He insulted security forces, civil servants and patriotic citizens through his literature, which led to mass protests in Belarus.» The good news, at least, is that literature has the power to move people. With «Die Elefanten», he now presents a novel which, with the same clumsy sophistication, reveals how dictatorships – and, sadly, the people who live under them – function. Nora Zukker’s talk with Sasha Filipenko is conducted in English without translation. Samuel Streiff reads excerpts from the text in German. Mitwirkende Künstler: Sasha Filipenko, Nora Zukker, Samuel Streiff

Highlights

• Talk by author Sasha Filipenko
• Discussion on dictatorship and literature
• Excerpts read in German by Samuel Streiff

General Information

Sasha Filipenko will discuss his novel 'Die Elefanten' in a talk at Zentrum Karl der Grosse in Zürich. The event features a conversation with Nora Zukker and includes readings from the text, exploring themes of politics and personal struggle under dictatorship.

Location

Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

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