Reading and discussion in the Exit Games series | Moderation: Stefan Härtel (Bookster HRO)
German Book Prize 2024
How do you recognize real love? How do you find space in a relationship without cheating? Juno cares for her seriously ill husband Jupiter while working as an artist. At night, she chats with men who idolize her online: Fake profiles, created somewhere in the global south, to cheat women in love in the western world out of money at some point. Juno distracts herself, plays games: she invents a fake life, uses and then subverts the style of these online chats until the scammers give up. Then she comes across one who carries on, even though she tells him she's seen through him, and he sees through her: a connection develops that feels real. Sensitive, melancholy and rich in humor: Martina Hefter's novel about needs and desires in life, about loneliness and growing old was awarded the German Book Prize 2024.
Martina Hefter is an author and performer based in Leipzig. Her texts range between poems, scenic forms of writing and novels. She stages many of her texts in collaboration with other artists. She has published three novels and - published by kookbooks Berlin - five volumes of poetry. For her last novel, "Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?", she received the German Book Prize in 2024.
Admission: 8 € in advance plus fee (press center/mvticket.de) | AK: 12 €/8 € reduced*.
* Discount for members of the Literaturhaus Rostock e.V., school pupils, Warnowpass holders
Students receive free admission with the ASTA culture ticket (registration: reservierung@literaturhaus-rostock.de)
Venue: Literaturhaus Rostock (in the Peter-Weiss-Haus), Doberaner Str. 21, 18057 Rostock
A joint series with the Rostock City Library.
