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LESUNG Saša Stanišić: Möchte die Witwe angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Gießkanne
READING Saša Stanišić: If the widow wants to be spoken to, she places the watering can on the grave
Event by: Georg Büchner Buchladen, Luchterhand Literaturverlag
Location: Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Prenzlauer Allee 227 228, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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What if you hadn't made this one decision, but this completely different one? What would have happened if expectations had been defied? And: wouldn't it be nice if you could try out life before you actually live it?
Sometimes we fear that we have been cowardly, that we have hesitated for too long and that we have missed something that would make us happy a better self, greater happiness, and better-looking and funnier pets and partners. The new stories by Saša Stanišić are dedicated to this constant pondering at the crossroads of our biography, where one could have taken a more surprising path, made an unusual choice or told a lie. Just like the cleaner who, with a goat hair brush in her hand, finally decides to take life into her own hands. Like the German-Bosnian writer who travels to Heligoland for the first time, only to realize that he has already been to Helgoland before. Just like the father who is willing to cheat in order to finally win against his eight-year-old son in memory...
Saša Stanišić was born in Višegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His stories and novels have been translated into over 30 languages and have received numerous awards. Saša Stanišić received, among other things, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for “Before the Festival” and the German Book Prize 2019 for “Herkunft” as well as, among others. the Eichendorff Literature Prize, the Schiller Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize. He lives and works in Hamburg.
Aula of the library at the water tower, Prenzlauer Allee 227/228, 10405 Berlin
VVK 12€, AK 15€
Sometimes we fear that we have been cowardly, that we have hesitated for too long and that we have missed something that would make us happy a better self, greater happiness, and better-looking and funnier pets and partners. The new stories by Saša Stanišić are dedicated to this constant pondering at the crossroads of our biography, where one could have taken a more surprising path, made an unusual choice or told a lie. Just like the cleaner who, with a goat hair brush in her hand, finally decides to take life into her own hands. Like the German-Bosnian writer who travels to Heligoland for the first time, only to realize that he has already been to Helgoland before. Just like the father who is willing to cheat in order to finally win against his eight-year-old son in memory...
Saša Stanišić was born in Višegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His stories and novels have been translated into over 30 languages and have received numerous awards. Saša Stanišić received, among other things, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for “Before the Festival” and the German Book Prize 2019 for “Herkunft” as well as, among others. the Eichendorff Literature Prize, the Schiller Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize. He lives and works in Hamburg.
Aula of the library at the water tower, Prenzlauer Allee 227/228, 10405 Berlin
VVK 12€, AK 15€