Reading and discussion with Uwe Rada
The Spree was never allowed to be just a river. It always had to represent, toil, transport, supply, economise. The Spree has to deliver, and then it's supposed to smile at tourists too. How long can it keep this up? Does it even want to?
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Uwe Rada approaches it as a literary and political landscape. Unlike the ‘lovely Havel’, in whose shadow it has always stood, the important questions of our time are negotiated on the ‘working river’. Will Berlin and the Spreewald be left high and dry after the coal phase-out in Lusatia? What voice do minorities such as the Sorbs have?
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Uwe Rada is a journalist and author. He is responsible for urban development and the future of rural areas at the Tageszeitung newspaper in Berlin, and since 2018 he has also lived in Grunow in eastern Brandenburg. In addition to his first European Essay, ‘Neuwald’, he has also published other books on the Oder, Memel, Elbe and Adriatic rivers.
Dates
April 2026
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