Zwei Stimmen, zwei Romane – ein Abend über das, was uns verbindet

In the organizer's words:

An evening about what connects us: Elke Cremer and Laura Vogt read from their latest novels Heimgehen and Das Jahr des Kalks (both published by Dörlemann Verlag).

What holds a life together? And what happens when something suddenly gets out of balance?

In Heimgehen, Elke Cremer tells the story of a single day in the city - seemingly ordinary, yet full of fractures. People meet, love, argue, hope. When an act of violence occurs, everything is set in motion: Lives intersect, secrets come to light, relationships are put to the test. In short, dense episodes, a panorama emerges that shows how closely we are connected to each other - often without knowing it.

Laura Vogt's The Year of Lime also revolves around loss and new beginnings. A young artist says goodbye to her dying uncle - and is confronted with an old pain. In her search for stability, she turns to nature, the lime, the mountains, the traces of times gone by. By making the fragile tangible, she finds her own way through the grief - and discovers what remains.

Both novels tell in different ways of farewell, memory and connection. They ask how we move on when something ends - and what sustains us.

Short biographies of the authors

Elke Cremer, born in Ludwigshafen in 1975, studied literature and musicology in Freiburg, Munich and Florence and lives as an author and film writer in Berlin. For her literary work, she received the annual literature scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and the GEDOK Heidelberg Poetry Prize. So far, she has published the poetry booklet Linien aus Bienen, the poetry cycle Die Mandarinenorakel (together with Eva Brunner) and the poetry collection Aufriss ohne Häuser in 2022. She received the German Audio Film Award in 2017, 2022 and 2023.

Laura Vogt, born in 1989 in eastern Switzerland, studied Cultural Studies at the University of Lucerne and Literary Writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. She has previously published the novels Die liegende Frau (2023), Was uns betrifft (2020) and So einfach war es also zu gehen (2016). Her works have been awarded various grants and scholarships and some have been translated into English. She lives with her family near St. Gallen.