The writer Gabriele Palm-Funke has won the 2022 Kunsthaus LISA Women's Literature Prize. The jury particularly liked the close connection between personal and social history in Gabriele Palm-Funke's texts.
.... Less than six months after the Wall came down, we drove to Kotzemeuschel in Yuri's second-hand VW. No, mother, Yuri and I drove to Chociemyśl, father drove to Kutzemeuschel. I was born in Kutzemeuschel and not in Chociemyśl, Father emphasized before biting into a sausage sandwich that Mother had made for the journey. Mother hissed at him, you've only just had breakfast, leave the bread, that's for later. Besides, Hitler had turned Kotzemeuschel into Dammfeld, even if it was Hitler, Dammfeld just sounds better. You don't say Kotzemeuschel either, father lectured her angrily, you say Kutzemeuschel, we've always called our village Kutzemeuschel, that's Lower Silesian, but you don't understand anything about that. I'm hot, Mother moaned and rolled down the window next to her seat. How long will it take us to get there? she wanted to know. Three or four hours, replied Dad, and if it takes us longer, it doesn't matter, we're not on the run. Don't say that, scolded Mother. We haven't fled, we've been driven out, Father told her. Father wanted to say something else, perhaps that mother's family had fled from the Russians and that Nazis also had good reasons to flee, but he choked on a crumb of bread and started coughing...
The reading is being held in cooperation with the Ribnitz-Damgarten municipal library and is also part of our KUNST HEUTE events, framed by an exhibition opening on 28.9. at 2 pm, a jazz concert on 28.9.24 at 5 p.m. and a "Braiding" workshop on 5.10.24 at 11 a.m. All these events at the Kunsthaus Lisa im take place as part of KUNST HEUTE, a state-wide series of events organized by art houses in MV.
