We used to look to the future to feed our fascination with visions of technological progress. These days, this fascination is supplemented with fear of developments marked by ecological, technological and social crisis. Klára Vlasáková and Jonáš Zbořil depict a world where certainties are crumbling and the fixed boundaries to which we were long accustomed are lacking. Does the writing and reading of fiction have any power to influence the direction of the future? Can literature do more than generate anxiety-inducing images?

Klára Vlasáková, Jonáš Zbořil, Moderation: Maximilien Mengeringhaus, deutsche Stimme: Stephan Wolf-Schönburg