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A state is founded for all eternity - and disappears almost without a trace after forty years. Have the people who once lived there fallen into oblivion? Are their dreams just a fleeting breeze in the wind of time?
In his brilliant social novel, Christoph Hein brings together men and women who were assigned the most diverse roles in the founding of the GDR. Convinced communists, formerly enthusiastic Nazis, functionaries entangled in intrigue, intellectuals who have managed to salvage their bourgeoisie for real socialism, shoe salesmen, waiters, factory workers, janitors and even a high-ranking Stasi man: they all increasingly recognize that they belong to an involuntary crew on board a community that they increasingly perceive as a ship of fools and whose course is heading towards ever more threatening cliffs.
Christoph Hein, born on April 8, 1944 in Heinzendorf, Silesia, grew up near Leipzig. From 1974 to 1979, he worked as an in-house playwright at the Volksbühne Berlin. His breakthrough came in 1982/83 with his novella Der fremde Freund / Drachenblut. Hein has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Uwe Johnson Prize and the Stefan Heym Prize. His novels are Spiegel bestsellers.
Advance booking: 17 €/12 € reduced for members of the Literaturhaus Verein/5 € reduced* plus fee at mvticket/press center| Box office: 20 €/15 € reduced*.
*Discount for pupils, Warnow Pass holders & members of the Literaturhaus Verein, severely disabled persons
Students with AStA culture ticket free (registration at reservierung@literaturhaus-rostock.de )
Venue: Kulturhafen Rostock (tent of the Circus Fantasia), Warnowufer 55, 18057 Rostock
A cooperation event of the Literaturhaus Rostock with the Rostock Documentation and Memorial Center/State Center for Political Education, the Kulturhafen Rostock, Circus Fantasia, the M.A.U. Club Rostock & the Compagnie de Comédie - BÜHNE 602.
