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12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Reading with Emma Braslavsky
Reading and conversation|Emma Braslavsky will read excerpts from her novel "Die Nacht war bleich, die Lichter blinkten" and her short story "Ich bin dein Mensch"
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Info Hub des Europäischen Parlaments, Brüssel
The event is open to EU officials and ministerial officials from the permanent representations of EU member states, as well as any interested members of the public.
The Goethe-Institut Brussels, in cooperation with the European Parliament, invites you to a reading with Emma Braslavsky in the Citizens Garden.
The event will be moderated by Katrin Schmidt, Head of Europanetzwerk Deutsch, Goethe-Institut Brüssel.
Biography
Emma Braslavsky was born in Erfurt in 1971. In early summer 1989, she managed to flee the GDR. She has lived in Berlin since 1999, where she works as a freelance author and curator. Her first novel, Aus dem Sinn (2007), has won several awards. In her story Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man), she tackles the topic of humanoid robots in a humorous yet profound way. This story inspired Maria Schrader to make her film of the same name, which won four German Film Awards in 2022 and was selected as the German entry for the Oscars.
"Die Nacht war bleich, die Lichter blinkten", novel, 2019
The novel transports the reader to Berlin in the year 2060 and paints a dystopian, almost crime-novel-like picture of everyday life in the big city. Due to increasing radical individualism, people suffer from social alienation, causing the number of suicides to increase tenfold. Robotics companies produce artificial partners that are almost indistinguishable from real humans. These hubots promise boundless private happiness by eliminating loneliness and giving the impression that any desired type of relationship can be realised. However, simulated love and partnership have their limits. The hubot prototype Roberta, for example, is designed as a detective. Her task is to find the relatives of people who have died by suicide in order to save social services the cost of funerals.
In addition to excerpts from this novel, excerpts from the story "Ich bin dein Mensch" will also be read aloud, which also deals with the human side of artificial intelligence and robotics.
Reviews
"Emma Braslavsky delves into the nocturnal heart of a city and takes us to the dark side of a pulsating metropolis. Her novel is both an urban narrative and a crime thriller that uses humour and pace to tell of the radicalisation of the individual, the narrow boundary between natural and artificial life, and the omnipotence of algorithms."
Suhrkamp
"Emma Braslavsky's novel raises the question in a literarily compelling way of the extent to which, in times of radical individualism, the boundary between human thought and artificial intelligence is beginning to blur."
Christoph Schröder, SWR, 18 August 2019
"There are signs that literary means are particularly well suited to connecting the people of today with the projects of tomorrow. Between dystopian scaremongering, blind faith in progress and cinematic exaggeration, they accurately convey the idea of a world in which, for example, thinking and feeling are no longer reserved for humans alone, but machines could even surpass them in this area.’
Julia Dettke, Zeit Online, 20 August 2019
The Goethe-Institut Brussels, in cooperation with the European Parliament, invites you to a reading with Emma Braslavsky in the Citizens Garden.
The event will be moderated by Katrin Schmidt, Head of Europanetzwerk Deutsch, Goethe-Institut Brüssel.
Biography
Emma Braslavsky was born in Erfurt in 1971. In early summer 1989, she managed to flee the GDR. She has lived in Berlin since 1999, where she works as a freelance author and curator. Her first novel, Aus dem Sinn (2007), has won several awards. In her story Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man), she tackles the topic of humanoid robots in a humorous yet profound way. This story inspired Maria Schrader to make her film of the same name, which won four German Film Awards in 2022 and was selected as the German entry for the Oscars.
"Die Nacht war bleich, die Lichter blinkten", novel, 2019
The novel transports the reader to Berlin in the year 2060 and paints a dystopian, almost crime-novel-like picture of everyday life in the big city. Due to increasing radical individualism, people suffer from social alienation, causing the number of suicides to increase tenfold. Robotics companies produce artificial partners that are almost indistinguishable from real humans. These hubots promise boundless private happiness by eliminating loneliness and giving the impression that any desired type of relationship can be realised. However, simulated love and partnership have their limits. The hubot prototype Roberta, for example, is designed as a detective. Her task is to find the relatives of people who have died by suicide in order to save social services the cost of funerals.
In addition to excerpts from this novel, excerpts from the story "Ich bin dein Mensch" will also be read aloud, which also deals with the human side of artificial intelligence and robotics.
Reviews
"Emma Braslavsky delves into the nocturnal heart of a city and takes us to the dark side of a pulsating metropolis. Her novel is both an urban narrative and a crime thriller that uses humour and pace to tell of the radicalisation of the individual, the narrow boundary between natural and artificial life, and the omnipotence of algorithms."
Suhrkamp
"Emma Braslavsky's novel raises the question in a literarily compelling way of the extent to which, in times of radical individualism, the boundary between human thought and artificial intelligence is beginning to blur."
Christoph Schröder, SWR, 18 August 2019
"There are signs that literary means are particularly well suited to connecting the people of today with the projects of tomorrow. Between dystopian scaremongering, blind faith in progress and cinematic exaggeration, they accurately convey the idea of a world in which, for example, thinking and feeling are no longer reserved for humans alone, but machines could even surpass them in this area.’
Julia Dettke, Zeit Online, 20 August 2019
Location
Info Hub des Europäischen Parlaments
Esplanade Solidarność 1980
1050 Brüssel
Belgium
Esplanade Solidarność 1980
1050 Brüssel
Belgium