Ein Lucia-Berlin-Abend - inklusive Filmpremiere!

In the organizer's words:

Antje Rávik Strubel and Maria-Christina Piwowarski talk about Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie - plus film premiere

It was not until 2015, when the collection "A Manual for Cleaning Women - Selected Stories" was published, that Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) gained worldwide recognition. The German version "Was ich sonst noch verpasst habe" was on the Spiegel bestseller list for ten weeks in 2016. This was followed by two more volumes and Lucia Berlin's memoir "Welcome Home".

Lucia Berlin is known for her stories, but she was also a gifted letter writer. For ten years - until shortly before her death - she wrote regularly with the author, performer, librettist and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022). They discussed social developments, their families, life as writers, vulnerabilities and vanities - the correspondence is a literary archive of a friendship. Chip Livingston has selected from it and published "Love, Loosha". The German translation by Marion Hertle and Antje Rávik Strubel is now being published by AKI-Verlag.

Antje Rávik Strubel has translated all of Lucia Berlin's titles and played a key role in the author being (re)discovered here. Together with literary mediator Maria-Christina Piwowarski, she will talk about the correspondence and introduce Lucia Berlin. Afterwards, the one-hour film "Love, Lucia - Remembering Lucia Berlin" by Ann Kathrin Doerig and Benedikt Schnermann will be shown for the first time, in which David Berlin shares precious memories of his mother and the author Lydia Davis emphasizes the eloquence and modesty of her long-time pen pal.

Price information:

€ 12,-/8,- / € 6,- (livestream)