UNTER UNS | Folge 7: ENGEL

“Fear not!“ – how did we come to believe that anyone who speaks these words must be adorable or harmless? Every angel is terrifying, according to the poet Rilke. The first angels were terrifying creatures, heavily armed, multi-winged, beset with countless eyes. It was only over time that they were trivialized to become the blond and chubby-cheeked cherubs smiling at us from Christmas cards. Angels always seem to fall on the wrong side, like buttered toast. And not all of them are as sweet as candy, Philosophy scholar Fabian Bernhardt and writer Laura Lichtblau set out to follow the paths of the Wings of Desire to map out the places and spaces inhabited by angels in our present time.