Lesung & Gespräch mit Norbert Kron: „Manchmal ist es sogar lustig. Meine Mutter, ihr langes Leben und ich“

In the organizer's words:

From honeyed flattery to emotional blackmail to the dark threat of hell: there is hardly a stop that the narrator and his ageing mother do not pull out until they finally achieve what is good for them ...

This mother-son relationship has never been easy. And it doesn't get any easier as the mother gets older. And so what should be a matter of course in view of a badly dented car becomes a skirmish full of feints: the almost blind mother finally hands over her car keys. And a Herculean struggle when the son tries to get her to sign a power of attorney or even consider the help of a care service.

However, what starts out like kin-catching also brings existential insights - about love, death and family secrets: Why complicated German history made the displaced mother who she is, and how lifelong struggles can still lead to reconciliation and happiness in the end.

Norbert Kron, born in Munich in 1965, studied German and French literature and has lived in Berlin as a television cultural journalist and writer since 1992. He has interviewed numerous cultural figures and celebrities for broadcasts on ARD and ZDF.