Kersty Grether »Bravo Bar«

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Moderation: Thomas Venker

An event from the series "Literatur zur Zeit"

"Bravo Bar" is the story of three soulmates who face outrageous challenges. Underemployed music journalist Timo wants to throw himself at the feet of successful street rapper Rachelle Engel. However, she is currently walking through Berlin's parks on shaky legs - because she can only cure her early-stage cancer with chemotherapy and feels like she is on a drug trip that is making her protective walls crumble. She has every insight and yet thinks nothing at all. And there's someone else: how good it is for humanity and these two that Greta exists! The activist with the superpowers always knows a way (out), even if it leads through her own heights and depths of desire. Set to a soundtrack of German rap, the infernal trio experience an endless summer in which emotions run wild. The only constant: the legendary Bravo Bar in Berlin's Torstraße. Rachelle and Greta are also linked by the secret of a violent night many years ago in Hamburg ...

Hip hop is their soundtrack, queer rap, trap rap and aggro rap. The search for true love and true passion, the truth in general, is their abyss. Because "Deutschrap has gone Romeo & Juliet, this year five", and likes you just the way you are! They are dancing towards 40, "going to BRAVO", as they say, sorry, of course they mean the BRAVO BAR on Torstraße in Berlin-Mitte, where the music plays in earnest. This is where the intrepid from the various milieus meet in the late ten's: the Twitter feminists and rap stars, the pop stars and left-wing politicians; people who have a shitstorm on their cheek but have already forgotten about it. In these overheated summers, where every person is connected to another through a feeling of magical attraction.

"Bravo Bar" is a pop, social and contemporary novel. Each character is told in their own style and mood. A rap in three flavors that plays so virtuously with the signs, tenderness and impositions of Generation X to Z. An episodic novel that ignites the energy of a survival trip in bittersweet salvos; as high-flying as it is meek, as rapturous as it is sarcastic.

Kersty Grether is one of the most important voices of pop feminism in the German-speaking world. She became famous and notorious as an author for SPEX as a teenager. In 2004, she published the highly acclaimed novel "Zuckerbabys", followed by essay collections, an anthology about Madonna and the novel "An einem Tag für rote Schuhe". The FAZ calls her "the Susan Sontag of German pop criticism", Deutschlandfunk describes her as a total work of art. Together with her sister Sandra, Kersty Grether runs the band The Doctorella, and both also curate the concert series "Ich brauche eine Genie" and the salon "Krawalle & Liebe" in Berlin.