Ilona Hartmann: Junk

She has seven days. Seven days between a troubling diagnosis and the follow-up appointment that could change everything. Seven days to stop thinking—or to finally clean up. Instead of going on vacation or seeking distractions, she heads down to her basement storage room, equipped with a headlamp, granola bars, and the firm resolve to part with everything she no longer needs and let go of whatever is better off without her.
 

“Ilona Hartmann is probably Germany’s coolest writer.
And she’s invented a new literary genre: Happysad.” 

Dirk von Lowtzow, Tocotronic

Ilona Hartmann was born near Stuttgart in 1990 and lives in Berlin. As a freelance writer, she writes about pop culture and everyday life for magazines, newspapers, and more than 100,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram. She also hosts her own show on Radio Fritz and, starting in 2021, co-hosted the ZEIT podcast*Und was machst du am Wochenende?* for two years. 

Her debut novel and bestseller*Land in Sicht* was published in 2020, followed by*Klarkommen* in 2024.
 

Friday, September 25
silent green Kuppelhalle
Doors open: 7:30 p.m. / Start: 8:00 p.m.
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