MIDSOMMAR ABEND im Kapitel Drei

In the organizer's words:

We are looking forward to a cozy evening with snacks, special drinks and a reading from FAST ABEND, IMMER NOCH HELL.

• Admission 19:00: Reception with drinks & snacks from the book
• from 19:30: Reading & discussion by editor Julia Heinen and translator Ursel Allenstein
• We have a book table! :)
  

FIVE FRIENDS, ONE SUMMER WEEK IN A HOUSE BY THE LAKE. AND A LOT OF DESIRE AND ATTRACTION.

At university, Sylvia and her group of friends were inseparable. Now, in their thirties, they have jobs, relationships, some even have children. But they still want to spend a summer week together, in a house by the lake. In the midsummer light, cooking and catching crabs, talking about love, queerness and life, the old familiarity quickly returns. But when two of them announce plans to marry, hidden longings become increasingly difficult to suppress. Are they all really living as freely and happily as they have always dreamed? About the book!

Ursel Allenstein is a translator from Danish, Swedish and Norwegian of, among others, Linea Maja Ernst, Tove Ditlevsen, Jonas Eika and Jonas Hassen Khemiri. She has received numerous awards for her translations, most recently the Jane Scatcherd Prize from the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation.

Julia Heinen studied and worked at the Institute for German Literature at the University of Frankfurt, as a bookseller and in various publishing houses in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Frankfurt. She has been an editor at S. Fischer Verlag since 2022, where she works alongside Linea Maja Ernst and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jarka Kubsova, among others.