The cultural critic and sociologist Wolfgang Pohrt would have turned 80 on 5 May 2025. His essays regularly provoked debate without losing any relevance in the process and over time. Topics were themed around racism, identity, anti-Semitism, literature and politics, which is why it seems like a good idea to take a look at his last book Wahn, Ideologie und Realitätsverlust /Delusion, ideology and loss of reality these days to see that there has always been something rotten. Just to then go on and make the same mistakes again, of course… Sophie Rois reads from texts by Wolfgang Pohrt about love and money in Balzac novels, about the phrase “To live is to die”, and others.