Universen: Lyrik-Lesung gute enden von Max Czollek

In the organizer's words:

if you ever fill a capsule
for the golden twenties of this millennium
don't forget to remember
how sad we were

No soft focus, no kisses in the sunset, no violins: sadness is at the heart of Max Czollek's poetry collection gute enden. And with it the question of how we became what we end up as today. From Friedrichshain to Florida, Vancouver and Pompei, Prague and Tel Aviv: we encounter traces of futile hope everywhere, temporary storage facilities for visions of humanity that have become toxic and discarded. And the hope that we have left the destructive 20th century behind us also proves to be in vain.
Max Czollek invites allies from Hanover to join him on the Universe Sofa and share which poems have particularly moved them, moved them or made them cry.
gute enden is a volume of poetry after the happy endings. A volume of poetry for our present.

Max Czollek, born in 1987, is an author and lives in Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine Jalta - Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart and since 2021 curator of the Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD). He has published three essays, most recently Versöhnungstheater (Hanser Verlag, 2023). Four volumes of poetry have been published by Verlagshaus Berlin, most recently Grenzwerte (2010). Max Czollek has already been a guest at Universen in the Poetic Justice literature series as well as in the first live edition of the remembrance podcast Trauer&Turnschuh, which he co-hosts with Hadija-Haruna Oelker.