Ivan Krastev and Fintan O’Toole: »It’s the Mope-Syndrome − Most Oppressed People Ever«
Talk »Handbook to the end of the world« at the PEN Berlin Congress at Fabrik Altona in Hamburg on 2 November 2024 with Eva Menasse (host), Ivan Krastev Fintan O’Toole. (Introduction in German by Bascha Mika.)
* Eva Menasse, born 1970 in Vienna, writer (»Vienna«, »Darkenbloom«) and essayist (»Alles und nichts sagen«), spokesperson for PEN Berlin from June 2022 to November 2024
* Ivan Krastev, born 1965 in Lukowit (Bulgaria), author (»After Europe«; »The Light that Failed: A Reckoning«, co-authored with Stephen Holmes), political scientist, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Board of the International Crisis Group and opinion writer for the New York Times.
* Fintan O’Toole, born 1958 in Dublin, journalist (Irish Times, Guardian) and author (»We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958«; »Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain«)
[Overview of all speeches and panels at the congress, in English/German]