DR. MARK BENECKE: WGT Diary 2022 (17/60) – Wolfsheim? Alphaville? Happy, happy? (2/3)

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After my lecture on rot, we will meet Kerstin Henning in the agra hall. “Kerstin, since when do you read Orkus!!!” Kerstin: “We have the Orkus! at home every now and then, the last issue was now because of The Cure.” Mark: “What do you think of my WGT diary that appears there regularly? Have you read it?” Kerstin: “But of course! But I have so much in my head, I can’t do it by heart, I’m sorry.”

In the agra hall: I am standing with my publisher Holger Kliemannel from the very good publishing house Edition Roter Drache and he has noticed something: “Since the war broke out in Ukraine, books are being bought much less. Sales figures are generally down sharply, which is due to the fact that a book is a luxury item. People are really paying attention to what they spend their money on.” Mark: “Do you personally think, then, that a book is a luxury item? Can you understand that?” Holger: “Actually, yes. A book is there for entertainment.” Very crass. We’ll ask the other dealers right away how they experience it. (Text & photos: Mark Benecke)

In the next part we fulfill the heading. The full load of Wolfsheim, Alphaville and “Happy, happy”. Or not…

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