Reading with Birgit Birnbacher
13.02.2025
Reading with Gabriele Kögl
20.03.2025
21:00 O'CLOCK
Small town life - small town death
The social rise and fall of a woman and her neighbourhood between dispossession and the crumbling of middle-class life.
Rosa is a hairdresser in a small Austrian town. She is the liaison to three different men who have lost their homes. There is Sigi, her first husband, who can no longer bear the failure of his relationships, her second husband Klaus, who refuses to recognise the slow death of the small town, and there is Severin, Rosa's son, who is chasing after his father's love.
Gabriele Kögl's novel is about emotional and material uprooting, about seemingly small changes that have major consequences for the individual.
Gabriele Kögl, who describes herself as a sentence farmer, was born in Graz and lives in Vienna. She studied to become a teacher and graduated from the Vienna Film Academy. She has been writing literary texts such as novels, theatre plays and radio plays since 1990. She has received numerous prizes, such as the Clemens von Brentano Prize, three Volksstückepreis awards from the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Prix Europa for the best European radio play of the year for her radio play ‘Höllenkinder’. ‘Brief vom Vater’ is her eighth book.
Where: Hotel Sonnenburg
Time: 9.00 pm
