LITERARISCHER HERBST: Beste erste Bücher

A great evening of novel debuts. Four particularly promising first novels will be read at the Ost-Passage Theater. When making our selection, we made sure to cover as wide a range as possible - in terms of the authors, style, themes and settings of the books: it's about an unusual family, the unconditional love of a mother for her child and the question of where it ends(Natalja Althauser: "Dunkelholz", Piper), about a radically and poetically told love story between desire and vulnerability, Berlin and Adana, Zeko and Hassan(Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç: "Hundesohn", Suhrkamp), about a biologist in the magical wilderness of Kamchatka and a language that blurs the line between poetry and research(Sophia Klink: "Kurilensee", Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt) and about the adorably witty friendship between two destitute female students in Moscow in the noughties who only want one thing: to get away(Maya Rosa: "Moscow Mule", Penguin). The whole thing is presented by Linn Penelope Rieger. Anyone interested in the voices of tomorrow should keep this evening free and get their tickets quickly.

You can find the full program of the Literary Autumn 2025 here: https://literarischer-herbst.com/