Hunting instead of cooking, foraging instead of shopping, swapping instead of buying - author Greta Taubert spent a year living a self-sufficient life far removed from Western consumer culture. Growing vegetables in the city, growing mushrooms, travelling through Europe without money - she has summarised her experiences in the book "Apokalypse jetzt!" (Eichborn Verlag), which she will present on Friday, 13 June at 7 p.m. in the Oldenburg University Library (Haarentor campus, café level). In conversation with Christel Wiechmann (scholarship holder of the Evangelische StudentInnengemeinde Oldenburg) and Dr Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach (research assistant at the Chair of Ecological Economics), Taubert will talk about her extreme self-experiment and her life as a "self-maker", "barterer" and "giver". The reading will be followed by a discussion.
Taubert lives as a freelance author in Leipzig and writes for Die Zeit, Cicero, taz and FAS. The newsroom.de initiative ranks her among the 500 most excellent women in the German media scene. Her work has been honoured with the "Kindernothilfe Media Prize". The reading is organised by the Protestant Student Community (ESG) in co-operation with Oldenburg University Library. Admission is free.
