May 04, 2020, 7:30–9 p.m.
Broadcast on May 4, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. on Youtube, acces via the website of Komische Oper Berlin
“Old age is a massacre,” said the writer Philip Roth. But what is age and aging all about? How do elderly people live? What does it mean to be part of the majority in an allegedly aging society that wants to look youthful all the time? How are elderly people perceived and represented? How do other societies look at getting older?
How do our images of aging relate to medical insights? What does aging mean at the molecular level, and what is the relationship between biological and psychological age? What is the potential, what is the beauty of aging? The opera house, which presents largely old, even ancient works and caters for an on average “older” generation, seems to be the right place to answer these kinds of questions.
These questions will be discussed at a salon entitled “Old but Sexy? Salon about Aging” by Prof. Dr. Silke van Dyk (sociologist, University of Jena) and Prof. Dr. Vjera Holthoff-Detto (head physician, Alexianer Hospital Hedwigshöhe Berlin).
The Salon of the Komische Oper Berlin and the Schering Stiftung will take place digitally on May 4 at 7:30 pm. You can follow the discussion live via YouTube. More information on the access via the column on the left.
May 4, 2020
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Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin
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Email: info@scheringstiftung.de
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Saturday to Sunday: 11 am - 7 pm
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