Katty Salié & Max Moor POESIEFESTIVAL 2022

When two top executives of public cultural television (Katty Salié moderates on ZDF "Aspekte ", Max Moor in the ARD "TTT") come together for a joint book reading, then it must be something very special. In George Orwell's famous utopian fairy tale "Farm of the Animals", published in 1945, nothing less than democracy is negotiated. The captivating allegory of the animals' revolt against their human oppressors is a literary wake-up call about the corrupting effect of power, and how quickly a better world can turn into its opposite, a totalitarian nightmare. Salié and Moor give the bitter dystopian fable as dedicated journalists the wonderfully lively and current kick. You haven't heard that before.