»MEIN LEBEN UNTER DEN GROSSEN« LESUNG & GESPRÄCH MIT MADAME NIELSEN

Moderation: Flora Fink
Reading: Bernardo Arias Porras (Münchner Kammerspiele)

Once upon a time, when Madame Nielsen was still Claus Beck Nielsen, this Claus from the provinces came to Copenhagen to meet the truly great people. He wanted to become like them, wanted to fence and dance, sail the seas and climb mountains, wanted to speak many languages and write novels. But he realized that even the greats were only as small as he was. In this early book (Kiepenheuer & Witsch // Engl. by Hannes Langendörfer), the internationally acclaimed Danish author and performance artist Madame Nielsen(winner of the 2024 Wolfgang Koeppen Prize) tells of embarrassing encounters, shattered dreams and the realization that you take yourself with you wherever you go. A book about the question of when art begins - unmistakably elegant and radically self-revealing.