Nora Bossong: Reichskanzlerplatz

In the organizer's words:

Theater am Goetheplatz (Foyer)

Reading with the author
In cooperation with the Bremer Literaturkontor
Moderation: Jens Laloire

In her new novel, Nora Bossong paints an intense portrait of the woman who became Magda Goebbels and her young lover. Two people caught up in the machinery of historical events, differently entangled, differently guilty. Even of themselves.
When Hans meets the young and beautiful stepmother of his school friend Hellmut Quandt, he has no idea what role Magda will play in his life, for him personally, but also years later as a fanatical National Socialist and model mother of the "Third Reich". The Weimar Republic is still in its infancy and Hans is as fiercely and hopelessly in love with Hellmut. But after an accident, Hans and Magda begin an affair, which they hope will bring them comfort and benefits: she wants to break out of her marriage, he wants to hide his homosexuality. It was only when Magda met Joseph Goebbels and joined the NSDAP that Hans and Magda broke up. While Magda and her children soon appear in the newsreel, Hans finds himself increasingly in danger. A novel that tells the story of two people and a country over twenty years, a story that was not inevitable.

Nora Bossong, born in Bremen in 1982, writes poetry, novels and essays, for which she has received several awards, most recently the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize and the Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Prize. She will be reading from her new novel at Theater Bremen and talking to Jens Laloire from Literaturkontor.

Nominated for the German Book Prize!

www.literaturmagazin-bremen.de/autorinnen/b/nora-bossong