Frisch gepresst: Dorothée Krings und „Tage aus Glas“

In the organizer's words:

1901: In Germany, the glassmakers go on strike, including the workers at the world's leading glassworks in Gerresheim. Dorothée Krings sheds light on this historic event by telling the story of two women: the daughter of a bottle maker who wants to emigrate to America with her life, and the daughter of the company doctor who does not want to live the way her father imagines. They live in the same place in different worlds, but both fight for their dreams of a better life.

Dorothee Krings, born in 1973, grew up in Mönchengladbach and first learned the goldsmith's trade before studying journalism. She works as a political editor at the "Rheinische Post"; "Tage aus Glas" is her first novel.

Moderator: Michael Serrer, Literaturbüro NRW

In cooperation with the Düsseldorf Central Library and the Freundeskreis Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf.