Reading
Neon/Grau
30 May, 2026, 8.30 PM @ Festival Centre: Lounge 19
Event language: German
Tickets
Reading
30 May
8.30 PM
Lounge 19
Program Info
Live Reading
Guests
Anna Lux
Anna Lux is a historian with a doctorate based in Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau. She worked on the project “The Contested Legacy of 1989,” focusing on popular historical culture, where she rediscovered both new perspectives and familiar themes.
Jonas Brückner
Jonas Brückner is a cultural studies scholar and part-time worker. He grew up in Berlin and returned after completing his studies in Leipzig. He explores the fields of gender history, popular culture, and (post-socialist) cultures of memory through writing, conversation, and observation, preferably in small group settings. He is currently wrapping up his dissertation on masculinities in the GDR of the 1970s and 1980s.
Moderation
Olaf Kretschmar
Olaf Kretschmar ist seit 2008 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Berlin Music Commission und Mitbegründer zahlreicher Initiativen und Formate der Musikwirtschaft, darunter MOST WANTED: MUSIC und die LISTEN TO BERLIN: AWARDS. Zuvor prägte er die Berliner Clubszene als Gründer und Betreiber der Clubs „Delicious Doughnuts Research“ und „oxymoron“ sowie als Mitbegründer der Clubcommission Berlin. Seit 2020 ist er Erster Vorsitzender des Bundesverbands Popularmusik.
Media in this event
Book
Neon/Grau
Between neon and grey, stories of the East shimmer with all their contradictions. Pop culture captures this—in novels, films, and music. Neon/Grau brings them into dialogue, revealing a multiplicity of perspectives and illuminating the ambivalences that often disappear within dominant narratives.
Tickets
Reading
30 May
8.30 PM
Lounge 19
Festival Centre: Lounge 19
Eichhornstraße 3
10785 Berlin
10785 Berlin
