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Jasmin Schreiber, multi-award-winning author and biology graduate, combines subtle poetry with social relevance in her novels. In "Da, wo ich dich sehen kann", she tells the story of nine-year-old Maja, who finds support with her godmother Liv and in astrophysics after the femicide of her mother. With empathetic language, Schreiber illuminates the consequences of violence, grief and family disintegration, but also gives hope for a new bond. Schreiber has received awards including "Blogger of the Year" and for her successful debut "Marianengraben". Her reading promises moving insights and a literary examination of what remains - and how courage arises to break the silence.

With the new event series "Madame Courage - Diversity and Democracy of Female Voices", the Hamburg State Center for Political Education and the Kulturhaus Süderelbe invite you to rethink democratic courage from a female perspective. The focus is on four women whose literary, essayistic and academic works show how women today name violence, organize resistance, politicize language and demand equality in concrete terms.

Based on Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage", the series transfers the motif of civil courage to the present day: what does democratic courage look like when women in Belarus are at the forefront of protests, when care work is understood as a political act, when patriarchal myths in the media and everyday life are exposed or femicides are made visible as structural violence? The readings, lectures and talks open up a multifaceted approach to complex questions of power, justice and participation.

In the JoLa of the Kulturhaus Süderelbe, an open neighborhood space right next to the S-Bahn Neugraben (S3/S5), a forum for exchange is created in a post-migrant urban society in which diversity has long been a reality. Visitors with different biographies meet here to talk about women's rights, language and democracy and to look together for scope for action in everyday life.

A series of events organized by the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung and the Kulturhaus Süderelbe.