ABOUT DECENCY IN DIFFICULT TIMES

LOCATION: ARCHITECTURE CENTRE VIENNA
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

Registrations under: Michael.Wuerges@parlament.gv.at

... and the question of how we treat each other

We are living in troubled and turbulent times, the foundations of our current coexistence are under threat: time to ask ourselves a few important questions once again. What does it actually mean for each individual when lies, ruthlessness and baseness are pushing for power or have already gained it? When all known rules of decency are violated so successfully in public? What exactly does it mean to lead a decent life under these conditions? Axel Hacke's book is an associative reflection on how people live together and the question already posed by Anton Chekhov: „Why don't we live as we could live?“, a plea to look for the answer not in others, but in ourselves, and perhaps in the end to discover a little humility and curiosity about others. And it is important to deal with the big question that always needs to be asked anew: How do we actually want to treat each other?

Axel Hacke, He became famous with Der weiße Neger Wumbaba: Kleines Handbuch des Verhörens (2004, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich), which humorously reproduces interrogations of various song lyrics and became a bestseller with over 120,000 copies sold in its first few months. Hacke's books have been translated into 17 languages to date. Some, such as Der kleine König Dezember, have also been bestsellers in Japan. His latest book, Über den Anstand in schwierigen Zeiten und die Frage, wie wir miteinander umgehen, was published by Verlag Antje Kunstmann Munich in summer 2017.

The Open : Space lecture series was initiated in 2016 by Thomas Drozda, then Federal Minister for Culture and now the SPÖ's culture spokesperson, and the Bruno Kreisky Forum. The aim is to discuss socio-political issues in a cultural-political context.

Curation and moderation: Isolde Charim, author and philosopher