In the organizer's words:

Moderation: Tanja Graf, Marion Bösker-von Paucker & Alke Wendlandt

What exactly is a "normal" person? The narrator in Leon Engler's acclaimed debut looks at the biography of his family: a family tree of madness. His grandmother is bipolar, his mother an alcoholic, his father depressive. And he? He ends up in an asylum - but as a psychologist. "Botanik des Wahnsinns" (DuMont) is a picaresque novel, a lesson in empathy and a stroke of liberation.
A young woman wakes up one day not in her city apartment with her boyfriend, but in her home village, with her husband, car in front of the door, mother-in-law next door and child on her lap. What is decision, what is coincidence? A book about the forks in the road that make life ours in the first place (Anne Sauer "Im Leben nebenan" // dtv).
And cartoonist and illustrator Melanie Garanin has the poet himself make an appearance in her poetically haunting graphic novel "Mein Freund Rilke" (Carlsen). An enchanting love story unfolds - between the times. For everyone who has always loved Rilke or would like to discover him anew.

Organizer: Stiftung Literaturhaus

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ADMISSION: EURO 10.- / 5.-