PHOTO: © Stadtgarten

Der Literarische Salon mit Marion Poschmann

In the organizer's words:

20:30 I Reading I 🎤 Concert hall

Marion Poschmann, born in Essen in 1969, is an author whose storytelling celebrates the art of fragility. Her sentences stir up events like a breeze. Whether the protagonists - her heroes are almost always women - are wandering around Japan or living in a forest hut, Poschmann always knows how to weave the spirit of nature into her lines. Her books are full of magic, which always arises from the concrete reality of bourgeois society. It is no coincidence that this gifted virtuoso of form, whose books are full of subtle humor, has been awarded prizes for poetry, prose and essays, most recently the prestigious Joseph Breitbach Prize. The FAZ called her new novel Chor der Erinnyen, about a math teacher whose firmly established world view is shattered, "linguistically a feast, a respite from all the banal, everyday-language prose that makes up much of contemporary German literature, unfortunately lasting just under two hundred pages." "A magical feat of form and content," agreed the Frankfurter Rundschau: "The novel endures an ambiguity that is second to none ..."

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Marion Poschmann (author), Navid Kermani (host), Guy Helminger (host)

📸 Marion Poschmann © Heike Steinweg

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Location

Stadtgarten Venloer Straße 40 50672 Köln

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