Event as part of the 29th Schwerin Literature Days
WELTALLTAGE - Reading with Paula Fürstenberg
They have been best friends since their school days. Now, in their early thirties, they share an apartment. Max is an architect, she is a writer who has been chronically ill since childhood and is dependent on Max. He is the healthy one, she is the sick one. It has always been like that. But then Max learns of his uncle's death and a darkness grows inside him. He has to go to hospital. All of a sudden, everything begins to totter.
What helps the writer is writing, trying to put the past in order. So she tells her story, and that of Max, from her post-reunification childhood in the East to the shaky present. She reflects on the social conditions that have made them who they are, on being ill - and on the language of bodies.
Paula Fürstenberg tells the story of a special friendship and its ordeal in a humorous, profound and unsparingly open way. About what it means not to function in a world where everything has to work; about the body and how we deal with it
Paula Fürstenberg, born in 1987, grew up in Potsdam and studied at the Swiss Literature Institute and Humboldt University. Her debut novel "Familie der geflügelten Tiger" was published in 2016. She is co-editor of the Habitus volumes and part of the authors' collective "Literatur für das, was passiert".
Moderation: Kathrin Matern, journalist and bookseller
Tuesday
15. October 2024
7:30 pm
Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Puschkinstraße 12
Admission
Box office: € 13.00 / advance booking: € 11.00
Organizer
Cultural Office of the State capital Schwerin
