Reading with Gabriele Kögl
20.03.2025
Reading with Birgit Birnbacher
13.02.2025
21:00 O'CLOCK
Birgit Birnbacher, the master of ‘unpathetic empathy’ (Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau), succeeds in posing the question of how and from what we want to live in gripping and poetic language.
A single mistake catapults Julia from her job as a nurse back to her old life in the village. Everything seems even worse there: the factory where half the village used to work no longer exists. Her father is in a precarious state, her mother has left him and her sick brother behind after years of sacrifice and has dared to make a new start. When Julia meets Oskar, who is recovering from a heart attack in the village, she is initially envious. Oskar has won a kind of basic income for a year and is making plans. But what can Julia think of for her future?
Where: Hotel Sonnenburg
