„Gute Enden“

if you ever fill a capsule for the golden twenties of this millennium don’t forget the memory of how sad we were - Max Czollek

No soft focus, no kisses in the sunset, no violins: sadness is at the heart of Max Czollek’s poetry collection. 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: everywhere we encounter traces of futile hope, 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. A volume of poetry after the happy endings. A volume of poetry for our present.

Max Czollek reads from his new volume of poetry and talks to friends and Munich residents about poetry and (un)good endings.