Bettina Hesse reads a story from "Museum der einzigartigen Dinge" and a second from her short story collection "Schwarz ist weiß" (Black is white)

When is a story a story?

In "Museum of Unique Things", two pieces of wood meet in a box. I sent these two, a cube and a piece of driftwood, into the river on the other bank, and there was the story.

The second text tells of a completely different border crossing: walking through 200 meters of no man's land on the border between Poland and the Ukraine under the suspicious eyes of border officials as if from Soviet times - that was an invention of experience.

Bettina Hesse will present two stories on August 15: from the current anthology "Museum der einzigartigen Dinge" and her latest collection of stories "Schwarz ist weiß".

The Cologne Summer of Literature is curated by the Cologne Literature Scene

NIMM PLATZ am Neumarkt is a joint project of Cologne's cultural administration and the independent cultural scene, with contributions from the University of Music and Dance (HfMT) and the Academy of Media Arts (KHM).