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"In the rhetorical lineage that stretches from the great orators of antiquity to the future of a truly united Europe, Navid Kermani belongs in a prominent place." Gerd Ueding,Laudatio zur Verleihung des Cicero-Rednerpreises 2012 Navid Kermani has made public speaking an art the country marvels at - not only with his famous speech in the Bundestag on the Basic Law or the acceptance speech for the Peace Prize in the Paulskirche. Time and again, he surprised his listeners, enlightened them, sparked debates, disturbed or moved them to tears. This book brings together Kermani's most important speeches from the past twenty years and thus gives new meaning to one of the oldest genres of literature. How do you thank someone appropriately for a prize that was initially denied to you? How does one declare one's love for America shortly after Donald Trump's election? What does a German with Iranian roots say about Auschwitz? What words remain at the grave of one's own father? And can a Cologne resident remain objective when talking about 1. FC Köln? Navid Kermani does not shy away from any challenge in his major speeches and thus also challenges his listeners to break away from familiar patterns of thought. In his very own field of tension between classical German literature, Islamic mysticism, American counterculture and the European spirit, Kermani always finds new arcs of thought that also captivate the reader to the last line.