In the organizer's words:

Anti Müller is not a romance novel. It is an unsparing analysis of encrusted structures and their soft enforcers, under whose varnished nails the dirt of patriarchy still lurks. With great poetic precision, Yade Önder's narrator dissects the mechanisms of modern relationships and a supposedly feminist cultural industry that still leaves the direction to men. About the stages. And over the bodies. Anke Stelling leads through the evening.

Kar Kauz is over. At 36, the protagonist is facing the ruins of her relationship with the celebrated author who ignored her desire to have children for years. She tries to distract herself on Tinder. But with the hedonistic actor Andi, she slides straight into the next catastrophe. Not only does he already have twins, but he also has an ex who suddenly appears in the bedroom one morning.

Her longing for a child escalates into an all-consuming obsession. When her relationship with Andi fails, her novel doesn't hit the mark as she had hoped, and further dates don't work out either, she makes a drastic decision: now she will simply fulfill her greatest wish herself. Even if that means becoming a perpetrator.

Anti Müller is a social novel about the fine arts with a gruesome aftertaste, identity-political trench warfare and the moral bankruptcy of pseudo-soft contemporary men who still have the dirt of the patriarchy under their fingernails.

Yade Yasemin Önder completed her A-levels as a second-chance student and went on to study at the HU Berlin, the German Literature Institute Leipzig and the UdK Berlin. Her play "Kartonage" premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 2017. Her awards include the open mike (2018), the Martha Saalfeld Prize (2019) and scholarships from the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Istanbul Cultural Academy (2020/2021). In 2022, she received the lit.Cologne debut prize for her novel "Wir wissen, wir könnten, und fallen synchron".

Anke Stelling, born in Ulm in 1971 and raised in Stuttgart, studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and has published several novels. "Bodentiefe Fenster" (2015), "a deeply sarcastic and profoundly sad reckoning with the ideals of post-war West Germany" (Zeit Online), was longlisted for the German Book Prize. This was followed by "Fürsorge" (2017), about a mother who starts a relationship with her son who grew up with his grandmother, and "Schäfchen im Trockenen" (2018), whose main character Resi describes the disintegration of her clique. In 2019, Stelling received the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize from the city of Bad Homburg for her literary work. Most recently, Stelling published an essay for the anthology "Selbst schuld!" (2024), a manifesto of critical thinking for the present day. The author lives with her family in Berlin.

(c) Julia Sellmann

The event is a cooperation with Ullstein.