In the organizer's words:

After an eviction, the narrator is literally left with nothing but the garbage of his own family history. How could it have come to this? He looks at his family's biography: a family tree of madness. His grandmother bipolar, twelve suicide attempts, his grandfather a regular customer at Steinhof, his mother an alcoholic, his father depressed. And he looks back on his own path, his early fear of going mad and how he ended up in an asylum after all - as a psychologist. Working with the patients, he learns that a person is always more than their illness. Above all, however, he soon has to ask himself what that should be: a normal person. "Writing a book literally from the soul is perhaps even more true for his novel than for other writers" (Berliner Morgenpost).

Leon Engler (*1989 in Osterzell) is an author, psychologist and lecturer in psychology and literary writing. He grew up in Munich and studied theater, film, media, cultural studies and psychology in Vienna, Paris and Berlin.

The event takes place in cooperation with the Cultural Office of the City of Giessen in the Hermann-Levi-Saal (concert hall in the town hall, Berliner Platz 1, 35390 Giessen). The reading will be moderated by Diana Hitzke. Admission is €10, reduced €8 and free for LZG members. Access is wheelchair accessible.

Price information:

10 € | reduced 6 € | LZG members free