In the organizer's words:

There is a fire. In the forests and on the screens. 15-year-old Era lives with her mother at the edge of the forest and tries to counter the creeping process of destruction by documenting the extinction of birds. In one stream, she observes her classmate Maja and her sister Merle blowing up hard drives in the neighboring clearing. Maja is the daughter of two momfluencers who is trying to erase the memories of a public childhood. While Era keeps notebooks, makes drawings and tries to organize all the knowledge she has access to, Maja forms a destructive counterforce. Nevertheless, Era and Maja are connected in their search for intimacy and analog stimuli. While the turtle dove dies out, the two fall in love. But not only the birds are threatened: when a large-scale fire destroys the forest, the girls also lose a significant part of their habitat.

Fiona Sironic travels to Munich to talk to Gina Penzkofer in the Werkraum about female rage, forest fires, explosions and expeditions into a possible future.

Confident and clever, Sironic convinces with a new literary voice:

"A wild, funny, wise expedition into our future."
- Julia von Lucadou, author of "Die Hochhausspringerin"

"Restless, imaginative, conflict-ridden and funny, this book keeps us in suspense until the last page thanks to its presence of mind."
- Jury of the German Book Prize 2025

"A dense and multi-layered debut, whose 200 or so pages are read in no time at all, but resonate all the longer and are thought-provoking." - Alexandra Friedrich, NDR

Price information:

10 €, reduced 5 €