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Reading and Conversation: Verkämpftes Land

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A circle of children, two girls running around them, fighter jets thundering past on the horizon. The game is called “Black Sheep.” These are times of war, times when language repeatedly fails, stutters. One always starts afresh: with a conversation with a mother whose son would have liked to be Peter in Peter and the Wolf and was murdered on 7 October; with an English teacher from Gaza who sees the silent question about time in the faces of his students. With a journey to Jerusalem to say goodbye to one’s dying father, the private, intimate path between conversations and objects left behind becoming a glimpse into a family history between Czernowitz, Vienna, and Jerusalem. A glimpse of failed utopias, of a childhood in a country scarred by war, a country seized by madness, changed beyond recognition.Ofer Waldman’s Verkämpftes Land (Contested Land) is an essayistic mosaic of observations, memories, and narratives—present, past, sometimes surreal—that repeatedly starts afresh from intimate, private moments in order to preserve the search for language, for insight, for interpersonal perception in the face of the arbitrariness of war.Ofer Waldman was born in Jerusalem in 1979. As one of the first members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra he moved to Berlin in its founding year 1999 to study horn. He has performed with Berlin’s Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, the Nuremberg Philharmonic, New Israeli Opera, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He received a PhD in History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in German Literature from the Free University of Berlin. Active in civil society, he heads the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Tel Aviv. His publications include Singularkollektiv (stories, 2023) and Gleichzeit. Briefe zwischen Israel & Europa (2024, with Sasha Marianna Salzmann). He has written several radio features and radio plays and was awarded the ARD German Radio Play Prize in 2021.Presented in GermanWith a musical contribution by students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie

Artists/Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Kai Wiegandt

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