Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

Five years ago, one of the most important contemporary diagnostic essays of the new global century was published: The Fatigue Society was translated into 18 languages. Byung-Chul Han states the pathological landscape of today’s society, which includes neuronal diseases such as attention deficit disorder and burnout. The essayistic documentary film by the artist Isabella Gresser about the philosopher Byung-Chul Han, which has won numerous awards, revolves around the phenomenon of fatigue and its symptoms. She accompanied him to his hometown of Seoul and to personal places in Berlin. It makes the reclusive philosopher, who rarely appears in public, tangible and raises the question of how we want to live today.