In the organizer's words:

Annett Gröschner: "Floating loads"

Hanna Krause was once a flower arranger before life turned her into a crane operator. She experienced two revolutions, two world wars, two dictatorships, an uprising, the Kaiser and democracy. She had six children, two of whom she lost - a pain that accompanied her to the end. She later worked in a heavy engineering plant in Magdeburg and watched the lives of the people below her from her crane. Hanna took life as it came. Her credo: stay decent.

Annett Gröschner's novel uses Hanna to tell a century of German history - the life of one woman, representative of many who are often overlooked. A novel about the end of the industrial age and its heroines in the East.

Annett Gröschner (* 1964) is a writer living in Berlin. She is best known for her novels "Moskauer Eis" (2000) and "Walpurgistag" (2011). Most recently, her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (2024), co-written with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann, was published by Hanser. Annett Gröschner has received numerous awards, most recently the Grand Art Prize Berlin (Fontane Prize).

Moderation: Claudia Johanna Bauer

An event in cooperation with the VHS Reinickendorf as part of the series LESEZEICHEN Literatur live in Tegel.

Price information:

Admission: 8€ / reduced 5€ (Box Office)