Liebeskind Berlin Die feine New Yorker Farngesellschaft

Since Oliver Sacks marveled at giant horsetails as a child in the fossil garden of the London Natural History Museum, he has been a great lover of ferns of all kinds. In the early 1990s, while taking a walk in New York, he discovers a poster announcing a meeting of the American Fern Society. Curious, Sacks decides to attend. The eclectic members of the club, whose roots trace back to the 19th century, possess a strangely old-fashioned, quirky charm, but their naive enthusiasm is infectious. This is not about fame and glory, but about a spirit of adventure and discovery. To indulge his passion and escape the cold New York winter, Sacks joins an expedition of the fern society to southern Mexico. It becomes a journey that transforms his understanding of what it means to be human.