In the organizer's words:

When Bettina Flitner returns to Celle for a reading from her book 'My Sister' - to the place where her mother was buried 40 years ago - questions that she had long kept at arm's length jump out at her with unexpected force: questions about the great misfortune in her mother's life and about a family catastrophe in a distant time and in a distant country. And so Bettina Flitner embarks on a journey full of surprises and discoveries to the climatic health resort of Wölfelsgrund in the former Lower Silesia, now Mi¿dzygórze, where her ancestors owned and ran a sanatorium until their dramatic escape in 1946. From the experiences of her journey to present-day Poland, the diaries and documents of her family members and her own memories of her mother's life, Bettina Flitner has created nothing less than a literary masterpiece, a highly suspenseful family novel that is both a reconciliation with her own mother and demonstrates the redemptive power of memory and accurate storytelling.

A joint event of the Proust bookshop and the Förderverein der TelefonSeelsorge Essen.