Reading & discussion in the series "Kempowski & Colleagues" | Moderation: Katrin Möller-Funck (Kempowski Archive Rostock)
In the "Kempowski & Colleagues" series, authors present their works whose working methods are related to Walter Kempowski's in one way or another. This is particularly true of Landolf Scherzer in his latest work:
In the fall of 1994, he meets Marianne Stracke and a pen-pal relationship begins. Stracke is writing a history of her family - the Kämpfs, tailors from Benshausen. When she died in 2004, her son gave the writer more than 600 pages of letters, diaries and memories. Scherzer only sifted through the material twenty years later. After decades of traveling to distant countries, from which he wrote reportages, he now discovers the everyday stories of less heroic heroes who lived in inhumane systems. And he asks himself and others what this is: the great power of the little people.
Landolf Scherzer, born in Dresden in 1941, studied journalism in Leipzig. He was exmatriculated in 1966, worked as an editor at the Freie Wort in Suhl until 1975 and then became a freelance writer. A roving reporter who explores the world from below, before and after 1989, and has published over 30 well-received books.
Advance booking: 8 €/5 € reduced* plus fee at mvticket/press center| Box office: 12 €/8 € reduced*
*Discount for pupils, Warnowpass holders & members of the Literaturhaus Verein, severely disabled persons
Students with AStA culture ticket free (registration at reservierung@literaturhaus-rostock.de )
Venue: Literaturhaus Rostock (in the Peter-Weiss-Haus), Doberaner Str. 21, 18057 Rostock
An event in cooperation with the Kempowski Archive Rostock and the Möwe bookshop in Warnemünde.
