Nora Gomringer liest aus "Am Meerschwein übt das Kind den Tod"

In the organizer's words:

She leaves behind three children and a hyphen. She leaves me her friends, her library, her unease. I write after her as a missing daughter, as an angry woman, as a silenced poet and wonder how little she lets herself be summoned when I want her to. She has - now heavenly - finally emancipated herself. I write about my multifaceted mother, her wisdom and humor, her husband, the guinea pig thing and myself.

"Am Meerschwein übt das Kind den Tod" is Nora Gomringer's first text in novel form. The author was born in 1980, is Swiss and German. She is a poet, filmmaker and writes and speaks for radio, television and feature pages. Opera libretti and theater works as well as numerous collaborations with visual artists make her one of the best-known poets of her generation. In 2015 she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, in 2022 the Else Lasker-Schüler Prize and most recently in 2025 she was awarded the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor. Nora Gomringer lives in Bamberg, where she is the director of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia.

Comments on the book:
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book." - Marcus Tullius, Cicero

"Amidst all the legacies of her parents, Nora Gomringer has dealt intensively with her mother's life, her own complicated family history and her grief. The result is a sad, funny and comforting book."
ARTE twist


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