Abgesagt! "Die neue deutsche Seltsamkeit " - Mit Petra Piuk und Marius Goldhorn

From May 14, we will be regularly presenting literary chaos at the Schleuse Zwei music bar in the Bilker Bunker. As part of the series "The New German Strangeness", we are devoting ourselves to texts that are no longer content with depicting reality and instead explore the limits of what can be told. Wild genre mix meets vision of the future. Alternative reality collides with digitally influenced narrative form. Classifications are overcome and make room for deliberate confusion. In the texts presented, oceans disappear, dating apps become investigative tools and young women with vandalism become stars on the internet. We jump into the year 2130 as well as into an unprecedented past. After the readings and talks, the bar will remain open and various DJs will present the appropriate music program.

The guests of the new German strangeness on 22.10.2025 are:

Petra Piuk, born in Burgenland, lives in Vienna. She has worked for many years in film and television, in front of and behind the camera. Petra Piuk writes novels and children's books, for which she has received numerous prizes and awards, including the first WORTMELDUNGEN Ulrike Crespo Literature Prize for
"Toni und Moni oder: Anleitung zum Heimatroman" (K&S 2018) and the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for "Josch, der Froschkönig" (Leykam 2023). Most recently, the prose volume "Die Liebe der Korallen" (Sonderzahl 2024) and the children's book "Schneewittchen pfeift auf Prinzessin" (Leykam 2024) were published.

Marius Goldhorn was born in Lahnstein in 1991 and is the author of the novel "Park" (Suhrkamp Verlag) and the poetry collection "Yin" (Korbinian Verlag). His stories and essays have been translated into several languages. His second novel "Die Prozesse" was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 2025.

Following the reading:
Music by AMSL

A series of events in cooperation with Schleuse Zwei im Bilker Bunker and Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf.

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.

Admission price: 6€ plus fee

Further information at Literaturbüro-NRW.de