SWR2 Magazine is well worth a read, including the new book by Esther Kinsky – SWR2

Speaking of trends in BookTok just in time for World Book Day, book scholar Gerhard Lauer explains where the new passion for books is coming from and how much social media is contributing to it.

Esther Kinski pays tribute to cinema culture in “Next See”: a thoughtful and far-sighted narrative essay about vision and travel, according to our author Carsten Otte.

And: Hengameh Yagoobifarah columns, keynote: Police in the dump, caused quite a stir in the media landscape. They now appear together as a volume called “Habibitus” with an introduction by Fatma Aydemir.

Wolfgang Koeppen’s novel “Pigeons in the Grass” caused an uproar 73 years after it was published.. The accusation: The novel will reproduce inhumane and racist language.. Writer Christoph Peters is an expert on Koppen: What does he say about the reason?

Also: Norbert Göchten’s new essay volume “More Than a Stranger.”

We continue to Venezuela, more precisely: to the poet Rafael Cadenas. He will be awarded the Premio Cervantes Prize on April 23rd. Not only important to him, but also to the Venezuelan cultural scene.