»Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit« Lesung mit Judith Hermann

In the organizer's words:

Moderation: Günter Keil

"What am I leaving behind, my mother asks me. What do I have to bequeath, what will remain of me when I'm gone? [...] She says nothing. I leave nothing, there is nothing left of me." JUDITH HERMANN

If we retrace the footsteps of our parents and grandparents: What will we find? And how do we tell them about it? Judith Hermann's grandfather was stationed for the SS in Radom, Poland, during the Second World War. In her new book (S. Fischer), the celebrated author ("Daheim", "Wir hätten uns alles gesagt" and others) tells of this, but above all of the unsaid and repressed. She carefully tracks down empty spaces and uses her own poetic and powerful language to show

"what it means to live with little more than an inkling of the crimes inscribed in one's own family history. "FAZ

ADMISSION: EURO 20.- / 10.-

Organizer: Stiftung Literaturhaus

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ADMISSION: EURO 20.- / 10.-