Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen einen Staat // Reading performance and discussion

Thu 05/02/24 | 7:30 pm Tickets

Reading performance and talk, kick-off of the series “Ins Freie”. The event will be held in German. 

Three friends, a kitchen table, the night outside the window: Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann talk about themselves as “East German women”, whatever that label means. About the happiness of crooked lives, about the present with its constantly intruding past. They drink, laugh and wrestle, talk about fragments of memory and contradictions, about the complexity of imprints and about ideals that have become alien over the years. In Japanese folklore, there are spirits that are born from carelessly discarded things: "What would the thing spirit of the GDR look like?”, the three ask in their book (Hanser, 2024) and on stage.

Welcome to the big social discussion at the start of “Ins Freie”! The series, curated by Karl-Heinz Ott and Ivna Žic, explores the seismographic power of literature for socio-political issues.

Literaturhaus Freiburg in cooperation with the festival PERFORMING DEMOCRAVY – an event of the Literatursommer 2024 of the Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung with the kind support of INTA-Stiftung and Förderkreis Literaturhaus Freiburg.

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