We keep witnessing how the rich hate the poor, how men* hate their women*, and how heterosexuals hate queer people. But why don’t most of the oppressed hate back? Or do we hate after all—only alone and in silence? Can a feeling change the conditions of the world if we simply come together? These are the questions we want to explore—loudly and unapologetically.
Our guest in Athens is hate expert Şeyda Kurt, whose book Hate has caused an international sensation: “I am interested in a kind of hate that attacks what alienates and degrades people. A hate that produces tenderness,” she writes. Şeyda Kurt is a writer, publicist, and moderator. In 2021, her first nonfiction bestseller Radical Tenderness – Why Love Is Political was published, followed by the experimental essay and bestseller Hate: On the Power of a Resistant Emotion. She is co-editor of a critical anthology on video games and regularly writes texts for the stage. Her debut novel Time of Monsters will be published in summer 2026.
In conversation with Şeyda Kurt will be the theatre maker Daniele Szeredy, part of the artistic management at Theaterhaus Jena. His stage production “Hass Misos Ura,” based on the cult film of the same name by Mathieu Kassovitz and to be performed at Theatro Technis on 28.05.-30.05., is strongly inspired by Şeyda Kurt’s writings.
The panel discussion is part of the Jena–Athens theatre exchange between Theaterhaus Jena and Spectrum Amke will be held in English.
