Bertha von Suttner: The Chess of Agony | Book premiere

A call for more empathy with people and animals around the world who are often tortured for profit, a sharp look at the growing anti-Semitism, a fiery plea for a commitment to a better world and the hopeful message that not only the powerful, but every individual can change the world for the better. published in 1898 and then lost for more than a century until Hirnkost Verlag republished it for the Leipzig Book Fair as part of its Suttner Edition with a foreword by Margot Käßmann.


Margot Käßmann is a Protestant-Lutheran theologian and pastor. She was President of the Central Office for the Rights and Protection of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).


Karlheinz Steinmüller holds a degree in physics, a doctorate in philosophy and is one of Germany's most respected futurologists. As a futurologist and science fiction author, he is interested in the distant future of mankind and is a team member of the Congress of Utopias project. his first volume of stories, "Der letzte Tag auf der Venus"followed with further stories and novels such as "Andymon"which he wrote together with his wife Angela Steinmüller.


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