DARING THE BREAK. AN EVENING ABOUT PETER KREISKY

EVA BRENNER, JULIA HERR, IRMTRAUT KARLSSON, ERWIN RIESS

DARING THE BREAK
An evening about Peter Kreisky

Peter Kreisky was born on 8 May 1944 in exile in Sweden, where his father, the future Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, had to flee from the Nazis. He died on 27 December 2010 during a mountain hike in Mallorca, where he was spending a short Christmas holiday.

A book about Peter Kreisky, the committed growth critic and radical democrat of 1968, was published on his 75th birthday - edited by his life partner Eva Brenner. It focuses on his visionary thinking and actions on the fringes of left-wing movements, his fight against racism, sexism and fundamentalism and reveals the outlines of a political theory.

The topics that have occupied Peter Kreisky throughout his life - the future of the welfare state, feminism, refugee issues or the shrinking of the left-wing scene and the associated possible organisation of a „new left-wing“ community - are as relevant today as ever.

Opening and reading:
Eva Brenner, theatre maker

Conversation:
Julia Herr, Member of the National Council, Chairwoman of Socialist Youth Austria
Irmtraut Karlsson, psychologist, writer and former politician
Erwin Riess, writer and activist for „Self-determined living“ for disabled people

Moderation
Robert Misik, Author and journalist

DARING THE BREAK
Texts by and about Peter Kreisky
mandelbaum publishing house 2019
Ed. Eva Brenner