My life wasn't what it was. Impossible storytelling – brilliantly told. Reading by Jutta Reichelt
Description
For decades, Jutta Reichelt has told everyone else, but also herself, her life as a “success story”. In doing so, she has to make ever greater contortions in order to be able to see past the serious problems that she is actually in. Only when she gets into an existential crisis does she start searching: to find out what's going on with her and how she can talk about it. The result is a gripping, clever essay - not just about people who have experienced sexualized violence, but about everyone in whose life something is 'weird', often queer, because it contradicts society's widespread ideas of credibility or conceivability.
Jutta Reichelt, born in 1967, lives as a writer and story instigator in Bremen. Her texts have received multiple awards. In 2024, Jutta Reichelt will again be involved in the Bremer Literaturhaus series “queer.lit!”, currently with the workshop offering “Queer Writing: Against the Norm!” In 2020, she received the Bremen Senator for Culture’s literary project grant for her work on this text .
Registration for the reading is required at vegesack@stabi-hb.de . Admission from 6:30 p.m.
The reading takes place as part of the “Action Weeks – Together against Exclusion and Discrimination” in the north of Bremen and is a cooperation event between the Stadtbibliothek Bremen and the Partnership for Democracy Bremen North. The Partnerships for Democracy are funded by the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the federal program “Living Democracy!”