Among Madmen – Why We Need Evil
I have sought proximity to the dark side
Madness rages around us. We are surrounded by madmen. In eight stories, masterfully told, we get to know some people who are on the margins of society. Schroeder meets a Holocaust denier in prison, accompanies a pedophile sex offender on his path to freedom, talks to a man who has had a secret second family for years, and visits soldiers preparing for war. ‘Among Madmen’ is a description of the state of our time. How happy we would be if we could divide people into friends and enemies, but the world is not that simple. People are not that simple. Schroeder follows the path of evil, which leads him to thinkers and philosophers, to psychologists and criminologists, to perpetrators and victims, to everyday madness, to madmen and condemned criminals.
- An entertaining and enlightening text
- Florian Schroeder shows that madman are just a mirror in which we can recognize ourselves – if we want to
Florian Schroeder
Florian Schroeder, born in 1979, studied German Literature and Philosophy and began his stage career as a cabaret artist and parodist while at university. He worked as a radio and television host, received numerous awards and has been a guest lecturer at the University of the Free Arts in Berlin since 2021.
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