Atlas der Sternenhimmel

Lecture and reading
Raoul Schrott

Turn off the light and look upwards: Our Big Dipper was a divine parrot for the Maya, the one-legged god of thunderstorms for the Incas, a moose for the Inuit, a bier for the Arabs. "UNESCO has declared the starry sky the intangible cultural heritage of mankind.
of mankind. You can only understand a culture if you know its starry sky," says Raoul Schrott. His great atlas offers a new perspective on humanity and its long history. With their immense imagination, people have created their oldest works of art in the stars. "The Atlas of Starry Skies" brings together 17 starry skies from different continents: from the Ancient Egyptians to the Australian Aborigines, from China, India and Tahiti, from the Inuit, Bushmen and Tuareg. "There is so much poetic power and imagination that it almost restores your faith in the beauty and goodness of human beings," says Schrott. Born in 1964, Raoul Schrott has received numerous awards, including the Peter Huchel Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize. His work is published by Carl Hanser Verlag.