Free words
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Revolutions are often driven by the desire to diversify and democratize the press landscape. In 1848, the king’s (print) monopoly developed into a diverse and unmanageable press and publishing landscape. Wall newspapers and pamphlets suddenly hung everywhere in the city. In 1989, the desire for a diverse press that was not controlled by the party also played a major role in the GDR. Bestselling author Jörg Bong and journalist Jan Carpentier look at newly emerging spaces for “free words.”
Jörg Bong, born in 1966, holds a doctorate in literary studies, is an author, freelance publicist, and former publisher of S. Fischer Verlag (until 2019). He has written for the FAZ, DIE ZEIT, and SPIEGEL, among others. He publishes crime novels under the name Jean-Luc Bannalec. Most recently, Bong edited the book “57 Interventions for Culture” together with Marion Ackermann, Gesine Schwan and
Jan Carpentier, born in Potsdam in 1954, is a journalist and former television presenter. He worked as an editor, reporter and presenter on German television (GDR) and as an editor at Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg. From 1994 to 2006, Carpentier was a correspondent at VOX and produced reports, features, documentaries and daily news coverage as a freelance journalist for various clients in public and private television. He has been working for rbb since 2007.