| Time: | January 18, 2023, 6:00 p.m. (CET) |
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| Meeting mode: | hybrid |
| Venue: | Rathaus Stuttgart, Marktplatz 1 |
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He is one of China's most important chroniclers, repeatedly criticizing the systems that abuse power in his writings and giving a voice to the disenfranchised by drawing on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment: Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer, musician and winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, will be delivering the second Stuttgarter Zukunftsrede. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 2022, made Ukraine and Russia the center of attention across the world. The war's aftermath is creating further tensions in other countries and regions, but it is also facilitating new alliances and creating global shifts - China has taken on a major, powerful role in this respect. If you ask Liao Yiwu where he gets the strength to criticize the Chinese regime, he replies: “I don't need strength from anywhere. I just need a pen.”
Liao Yiwu was born in 1958 and grew up during the great famine of the 1960s. When he published the poem Massacre in 1989 - an examination of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests - he was imprisoned for four years. He first gained international attention in 2009 with his book The Corpse Walker. Real life stories: China from the Bottom Up. Liao Yiwu lives in Berlin.
7:15 p.m.
What future lies ahead for China, for Germany's relationship with China, for the world? This talk looks at possible future scenarios and will be followed by Liao Yiwu in conversation with Volker Stanzel. Volker Stanzel was the German Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 2004-2007. He is a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. His work focuses on the Euroatlantic Security Initiative and transatlantic relations, with an emphasis on China, Japan, and the United States.
Moderation: Volker Stanzel
Interpreter: Dominik Wu
Entry is free of charge
Livestream at www.literaturhaus-stuttgart.de
The Stuttgarter Zukunftsrede will be published by Klett-Cotta and will be released on 3.18.23.
Following the event, the City of Stuttgart invites you to attend a reception.
The Stuttgarter Zukunftsrede is an initiative of Literaturhaus Stuttgart, the International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies (IZKT) at the University of Stuttgart and the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart, sponsored by the City of Stuttgart and the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung.
In addition to the Stuttgarter Zukunftsrede, an accompanying program will take place, including the following events:
- January 10: Michael Zürn: On (Un)Appealing New Authoritarian Political Systems
- January 19: Panel discussion: Digitalization and surveillance
