Danuta Schmidt in Conversation with Aron Boks about His Book "Nackt in die DDR"
Kulturkaten, Ostseebad Prerow, Germany
Aron Boks, born in 1997 in Wernigerode, lives in Berlin as an author, slam poet and host. In 2019 he received the Klopstock-Förderpreis für Neue Literatur; since 2021 he has been a regular contributor to taz and the taz.FUTURZWEI column "Stimme meiner Generation".
In 2023 he published "Nackt in die DDR", tracing the life of his great-great-uncle, artist and functionary Willi Sitte - a book that attracted wide media attention. Boks himself never experienced the GDR; the research gave him a way into German-German history and its relevance today. In 2025 he followed it with "Starkstromzeit", about his grandparents' lamp designs and the traces of the GDR in his upbringing.
Danuta Schmidt talks with him about his work. Please have ready at the door: residents of the FDZ peninsula their ID card, guests and day visitors their guest card.











