In the organizer's words:

Be there when Shelly Kupferberg and journalist Anne-Dore Krohn read from her debut novel Hours Like Days at the venerable Babylon Mitte: A story about two women's lives that are connected beyond death. A novel about humanity in the most inhuman of times.

Berlin, in the 1940s: Martha E. is hard-working and extremely thrifty. Good qualities for the job of caretaker at the Berkowitz brothers' apartment building in Schöneberg. Liane Berkowitz comes from a good family, a curious and fun-loving girl who learns about love in the middle of the war - and the resistance against the National Socialists. Decades later, Martha wanders the streets of Schöneberg, ragged and torn. Everyone knows her, but no one knows who she really is: a millionaire and witness to Liane's fateful life.

Shelly Kupferberg, born in Tel Aviv in 1974, grew up in West Berlin and studied journalism, theater and musicology. She is a journalist and presents programs on culture and society for 'Deutschlandfunk Kultur' and 'RBB radio3'. Her first book 'Isidor' was a success with the public and the press. Shelly Kupferberg lives with her family in Berlin.

Anne-Dore Krohn studied journalism and literature in Florence, London, Wrocław and Berlin and attended the Hamburg School of Journalism. After numerous trips for the travel section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, she now works as a literary editor at rbb Kultur.