Giving Voice to Words

Want to make noise in the library? Give your opinion on their words!

Connect organically via an exchange of ideas and opinions. We welcome everybody who is interested in sharing their opinions on content of the library.

These quotes were starting points of extraordinary discussions in our meetings:

Dr Rudolph’s theory was that no one should be excluded, especially not the slowest kid. No winners, no losers. Well, as I said, a fanatic. He always said there was no such thing as happy ends, only now and then fair ends. (Indigo by Clemens J. Setz)

Those women who could afford the new time-saving household appliances bought them as soon as possible, while those who could not internalised the  concepts of automated efficiency they had learned in the factories and implemented them in the home as a means of managing both wage work and house work.(Women in the Metropolis - Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture - Edited by Katharina Von Ankum)

“To put it succinctly, the calamities of action all arise from the human condition of plurality. And this is the price human beings pay for plurality… for the joy of inhabiting together with others in a world whose reality is guaranteed for each by the presence of all.”  (Hannah Arendt, German philosopher)

I grew up in a language nightmare. Between German, Irish and English. I could never be sure what country I was in. My mother was German, my father was Irish. She came to Ireland to learn English but ended up teaching my father German. (Dublin Palms by Hugo Hamilton)

You can even try your German conversation skills! You can choose between English or German.

What to expect during the event:
You will be invited to join a small group of maximum four people at one of the tables. You will get to know one another by discussing the topics prepared for the event. The topics of discussion are based on content from the library books, both fiction and non-fiction, which will be waiting on each table. There will be three topics for the first hour and three for the second. Participants are invited to read and decide among themselves which topic/s they would like to discuss. There is no obligation to cover all of the topics. Everybody is invited to share their ideas, listen to and be respectful of the offerings of every member of the group.