Wolfgang Bauer: Across the Sea - Why Refugees' Fate Concerns All Of Us
When:
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016 7:00p -
10:00p
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016 7:00p -
10:00p
Where:
Goethe Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20802398
Crossing Ideas
Award-winning journalist and Die Zeit reporter Wolfgang Bauer (born in 1970) accompanied Syrian refugees: in their hideouts in Egypt, on the boats across the Mediterranean, on the streets of Europe. In his book Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe, he describes the fates concealed behind the abstract figures, and the dramatic circumstances of flight. It is an exceptionally authentic document and a passionate appeal for a more humanitarian refugee policy.
Wolfgang Bauer, born in 1970, works for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. For his reportage he has been awarded the Katholischer Medienpreis and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre as well as other distinctions. His most recent work, Über das Meer. Mit Syrern auf der Flucht nach Europa (English edition: Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe) is published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The book has been translated into Czech, English and French, supported in part by the Goethe-Institut. An Arabic translation is in preparation.
