HELENE HEGEMANN, KATHARINA BACH, ELIAS KRISCHKE

Discussion afterwards: Daniel Schreiber

Martial arts and class struggle - and love: author and director Helene Hegemann tells with force and speed about the moment when you have to admit weakness.

N lives on a railroad line that connects a problem district with the residential area at the other end of the city. Two worlds. N knows both. And a third: the martial arts school where she teaches, prepares for competitions and begins an affair with a politician from the defense committee. Opposites characterize her existence: rich and poor, powerlessness and muscle building, extreme discipline and excessive aggression towards herself.

Together with the Munich actors Katharina Bach and Elias Krischke, Helene Hegemann will read a dramatized version of her new, electrifying novel (Kiepenheuer & Witsch). Afterwards, she will talk to Literaturfest curator Daniel Schreiber about wealth and displacement and about martial arts as a home, outlet and language.

In cooperation with the Münchner Kammerspiele