Skandal in Königsberg

Reading and talk with Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark takes us on a journey back in time to the early 19th century and into a world of intrigue
world of intrigue that was the undoing of two Lutheran preachers in Königsberg. Königsberg, the former capital of the Prussian province of East Prussia, was considered a rather sleepy place, known primarily as the residence of Immanuel Kant. But in the late 1830s, the town was suddenly the talk of the town. Christopher Clark tells the story of how religious zeal and sexual permissiveness, vanity and professional rivalries, naivety and simple human unpredictability threatened to tear a town apart - and why some of this scandal seems very relevant today. In "Scandal in Königsberg", Clark brings to life an episode from a period that today is associated with the supposedly tranquil years of the Biedermeier era. Christopher Clark, born in 1960, is Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge.
"The Sleepwalkers" (2013) became an international bestseller; he became known to a wide television audience as the presenter of multi-part historical documentary series on ZDF.