Why we keep on travelling
Weekend trip or round-the-world trip, package tour or backpacker trip, collecting countries or simply last minute: Germans travel for all they're worth. And they do it in every conceivable way. But what is behind this love of travel? What has happened to the great promise that the world once held? How has travel changed? Matthias Politycki, a novelist and lyricist in his main profession and a passionate traveller in his second, has naturally not written a travel guide, but a book about travel. In the approach and in the procedure he has referred to his much-read marathon primer "42.195 - Warum wir Marathon laufen und was wir dabei denken" (42.195 - Why we run marathons and what we think about them), which was also published by Hoffmann und Campe. For running, like travelling, reading maps, preparing, setting off and arriving, making sure of the steps, making up one's mind while moving, are this author's passion and drive. Matthias Politycki brings the F.A.Z. editor Lena Bopp.Editor Lena Bopp.
Text source and further information about this event: http://literaturhaus-frankfurt.en/program/appointments/matthias-politycki-terrible-schoen-and-far-and-wild-2017-06-26/
