In the organizer's words:

Berlin-based writer and journalist Wolfgang Scherreiks presents his novel "Goldberg". In a sophisticated and atmospherically dense way, he interweaves the sad and beautiful story of a "Hungarian" muse with the solace of narrative and nature writing.

Somewhere in Brandenburg: in a lakeside house surrounded by forest, Goldberg fulfills his long-delayed promise to write the story of Miléna Balogh. A woman caught between creative work and the paralyzing exhaustion of her bread-and-butter job in the Neukölln of the noughties. At the same time, he observes the investigations of a young policeman: a stranger is draping dead foxes in the nearby undergrowth.

Goldberg meets Mitić, a butterfly collector who plants old pear trees, an eco-poet who considers her poetry unimportant in the face of the destruction of nature, the local vet, hunter and amateur historian who declares hunting to be a fair and equal fight in a fairytale forest hut, and - a ghost.

Wolfgang Scherreiks has been reading his way through world literature since childhood and soon began writing his own short literary texts and novels. Initially for the drawer. After occasional contributions to literary magazines (including the TORSO Literature Prize 2010), travel essays, a Post AG journalism scholarship in 2012 and, most recently, the Nature Writing Workshop of the Art & Nature x Matthes & Seitz Foundation in 2021, he wrote the 'Goldberg' novel in a lake house in the Uckermark, awarded the Neustart Kultur scholarship. Born in Bremen, the author has lived in his adopted home of Berlin-Schöneberg since 1987.