Michael Krüger: What remains of us ...

Michael Krüger on the paintings of Giovanni Segantini – this was the theme for a reading at KiS in late October 2024. The audience got to know not only the author Michael Krüger, but also the publisher, who, as the long-standing director of Carl Hanser Verlag, has followed and helped shape the German-language literary scene like few others. In conversation with Rafael Jablonka, he explored the significance of painting in all our lives. What is it that makes pictures so fascinating that one would want to spend a whole life with them? Why do people need images? They are „probably what remains of us and show what we have lost forever.“