Event as part of the 29th Schwerin Literature Days
OUR OLE - Reading with Katja Lange-Müller
The once beautiful Ida is old and disappointed by life, men and herself. In order not to become completely impoverished, she occasionally works as a model at senior women's fashion shows. In a department store, she meets Elvira, who looks after her grandson Ole. When Ida loses her apartment, Elvira, who has broken off contact with her daughter and fears nothing more than loneliness, lures her friend to her country house because she needs help with the unpredictable, late-pubescent giant Ole.
One morning, a tragic event occurs that calls Ole's mother Manuela to the scene. She hasn't seen her son since he was one year old. As the women circle each other suspiciously, their family histories, their biographies, their emotional wounds unravel.
Katja Lange-Müller is unique in the literary power and precision with which she gives different voices to characters from the margins of society. She tells of the contradictions that make up a personality, of the secret longing for affection and all the lies in life that sometimes aren't lies at all....
Katja Lange-Müller, born in East Berlin in 1951, lives as a freelance writer in Berlin and Aargau. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Kleist Prize.
Moderation: Gregor Sander, freelance author
Saturday
November 02, 2024
7:30 pm
Stadtbibliothek in den Schweriner Höfen, Klöresgang 3
Admission
Box office: €13.00 / advance booking €11.00
Organizer
Cultural Office of the State capital Schwerin
