Judith Hermann »Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit«

March 19, 2026 / 8 pm / Great Hall

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In "Ich möchte zurückgehen in der Zeit", Judith Hermann follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, who was stationed for the SS in Radom, Poland, during the Second World War. She links her writing with his long denied history, travels from Poland to her sister in Naples and explores the memories and forgetting of the following generations.

Judith Hermann traces the repressed, the voids of our society in intermediate tones and undertones. As magical as she is magnetic, she tells of how fragile we make ourselves comfortable in our lives - and also shows what beauty can be hidden in them. (S. Fischer 2026)

Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut "Sommerhaus, später" (1998) was extremely well received. This was followed in 2003 by the collection of stories "Nichts als Gespenster". Some of these stories were made into films in 2007. In 2009, "Alice" was published, five stories that were internationally acclaimed. In 2014, Judith Hermann published her first novel, "Aller Liebe Anfang". This was followed in 2016 by the short stories "Lettipark", which won the Danish Blixen Prize for short stories. Judith Hermann has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. In 2021, the novel "Daheim" was published, which was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and for which Judith Hermann was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 2022. Most recently, "Wir hätten uns alles gesagt" was published by S. FISCHER in 2023, based on the Frankfurt Poetry Lectures Judith Hermann gave in spring 2022, for which she received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize. The author lives and writes in Berlin.

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