Momo
This seemingly simple and innocent children's book contains existential ideas of our modern society, which has become enslaved to the race after success, consumption and has forgotten the simple moments of pleasure in life. Michael Ende's ‘strange story of the time thieves and the child who brought back stolen time to the people’ is now almost 50 years old. Long before the advent of mobile phones and the Internet, Ende's fairytale novel describes a society that is determined by time constraints, rushedness and the need for constant self-optimization, and which can only be healed through the power of interpersonal encounters. Then as now, children and adults alike are touched by Momo's kindness - and by the idea that we can all choose a life without consumer pressure and incessant acceleration if we just want to.
