Heimsuchung

Based on the novel by Jenny Erpenbeck

WITH THIS NOVEL OF THE CENTURY, JENNY ERPENBECK achieved her international breakthrough. The partly autobiographical stories span generations in a house on a lake in Brandenburg and cover the period from 1906 to 2002. From the Weimar Republic through National Socialism and the establishment of the GDR to reunification, Erpenbeck illuminates and interweaves the fates of individual people: in their respective eras, they seek a home on this property. The characters allow us to immerse ourselves in the contradictions of their time and their lives. Each story is a single life story, each person with their own unique, private perspectives on the world, shaped and marked by the social constraints of their time. Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She has won, among others, the Hans Fallada Prize (2014), the Thomas Mann Prize (2016), and the Uwe Johnson Prize (2022). In 2024, she became the first German to receive the International
Booker Prize. She is a recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon.