Adam Soboczynski, Autor

Eugen Gomringer galt als Vater der Konkreten Poesie; sein Gedicht "Schweigen" ist das bekannteste Beispiel dafür und mittlerweile fester Bestandteil der Schullektüre.Jetzt ist er im Alter von 100 Jahren verstorben. In memoriam wiederholen wir einen Talk mit ihm vom September 2013 ... Show More

Laura Dahlmeier war Doppel-Olympiasiegerin und 7-fache Weltmeisterin im Biathlon und leidenschaftliche Bergsteigerin. Nun ist sie bei einem Bergunfall ums Leben gekommen. In memoriam wiederholen wir einen Talk aus dem Jahr 2024. 

Phoebe Preiß, Kapitänin der MS Altmühlsee, liebt Wasser, Abenteuer und Musik. Mit einer bewegten Vergangenheit und viel Mut lebt sie ihren Traum - immer mit einem Handbreit Wasser unterm Kiel. 

Adam Gopnik seeks enlightenment for our time in Tolstoy's War and Peace, finding parallels in Tolstoy's thinking for today's war in Ukraine.Reflecting on how Russian characters in the book converse in fluent French, Adam considers how mixed identities should not undermine nationa ... Show More

This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s s ... Show More

Tolstoy was one of the greatest writers of all time. His books have constructed how we think about Russian imperial history. But he was not just an observer, he was also a participant. As a young man, Tolstoy fought in several of Russia's imperial wars– against the Chechens and t ... Show More

The daughter of a Jewish heiress and Polish count went on to become one of the most infamous secret agents in British history. The story of Krystyna Skarbek reads like part-spy novel and part-political thriller. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork ... Show More

Keggie Carew discusses her book 'Dadland', a story about a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, and dementia. The novel centres upon her father Tom Carew, an enigmatic, unorthodox character, who was an undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World Wa ... Show More

'War and Peace' by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy charts the story of Russia during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, covering the pandemonium and brutality of the battlefield, as well as the equally intense dramas and loves of several families. It is a monumental ... Show More

The title of Edward Westermann's new book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Cornell University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021), suggests that it is about the use of alcohol by perpetrators of the H ... Show More