Warum Krieg?

DE · German

The famous 1932 letter exchange between Einstein and Freud, read in full in the original German: Einstein asks whether humanity can free itself from the curse of war — Freud answers with the picture of an innate drive toward aggression and destruction that culture and law can only partly tame. Both letters are read in voices modeled on the original archival recordings of Einstein and Freud: you hear the correspondence as if the two men were speaking. A short introduction and chapter titles in a narrator's voice frame the exchange. For anyone ready to finally hear the exchange between the century's greatest physicist and its most influential psychologist — on the one question they could not answer. Long after the last letter, one feeling remains: the question is still open — and you have heard it asked.