LiteraTour Nord – Michael Lentz

In the organizer's words:

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Michael Lentz reads from "Heimwärts"
Moderator: Axel Dunker

Michael Lentz, born in Düren in 1964, is an author, musician and publisher living in Berlin. He has received several awards, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize.

How can you become a better father than your own? Michael Lentz remembers the eerie years of the old Federal Republic, a small-town West German childhood between apple pie and anger. His father regularly slips his hand, or they meet wordlessly in the house. There is plenty to eat, and the mother ensures order and a guilty conscience. The memories are interrupted by the voice of a child who only knows the old FRG from hearsay - the son has now become a father himself.

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Every winter from October to January, selected authors of contemporary German-language literature go on the LiteraTour Nord and read from their new publications in Oldenburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock, Lüneburg, Hanover and Osnabrück. The readings will take place in local literature houses and bookshops, moderated by professors and lecturers who will each offer a seminar at their universities to accompany the tour. By taking part, the authors are also competing for the LiteraTour Nord prize, which is awarded annually by the VGH Foundation and is endowed with 15,000 euros. The jury consists of the organizers and presenters and the audience. The audience vote is determined by voting card at each of the venues. The prerequisite for voting is that you have seen all six events of the current LiteraTour Nord.

In the 2024/2025 season, Valerie Fritsch, Maren Kames, Clemens Meyer, Michael Lentz and Mithu Sanyal will go on a reading tour with LiteraTour Nord.

Sun October 27: Valerie Fritsch "Lemons"
Sun November 17: Maren Kames "Hasenprosa"
Sun December 1: Clemens Meyer "Die Projektoren"
Sun January 12: Michael Lentz "Heimwärts"
Sun January 26: Mithu Sanyal "Antichristie"

An event organized by Schweitzer Fachinformationen Bremen, Bremer Literaturkontor e.V. and the University of Bremen