»“Happiness is always the moment afterwards. Judith Hermann's storytelling between longing and futility" - a lecture by Dr. Stephanie Schaefers«
Description
Restless characters, laconic language, enigmatic blank spaces – since her debut “Summer House, Later” (1998), Judith Hermann has been considered one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. In the lecture, Dr. Stephanie Schaefers, textwerk bremen, examines the author's prose works and embarks on a literary search for traces of a melancholic idea of happiness. After the collections of short stories “Nothing but Ghosts” (2003) and “Alice” (2009), Hermann’s first novel “All Love Beginning” was published in 2014. In 2022, Judith Hermann received the Bremen Literature Prize for her novel “Daheim” (2021). “We would have told each other anything” was last published in 2023. The author lives and writes in Berlin. Stephanie Schaefers studied German, comparative literature and applied cultural studies in Münster and received her doctorate in the field of contemporary literature. She has been working as a freelance literary scholar in adult education since 2010.
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Where and when
June 20, 2024 from 6:00 p.mFree event