The seventh "Quality Control" is about travelling, being on the lookout and fathers. In "The Smile of My Invisible Father" (Hanser Berlin), Dmitrij Kapitelman shows that even joint trips to the local department store can be small journeys. As an adult, he travels to Israel with his father, who came to Germany as a Jewish contingent refugee. A search for self-understanding in Jewish identity and one's own belonging. Katharina Winkler's "Blauschmuck" (Suhrkamp) cuts to the core and makes tears of rage well up. For the jewellery that gives the title, proudly worn by Kurdish women, is not jewellery, but the traces of their husbands' beatings. In Michelle Steinbeck's developmental novel "My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in Water" (Lenos Verlag), Loribeth travels to the island of fugitive fathers, in her luggage the dead child with the flashing shoes, beaten to death by an iron. Breathless, over-the-top and magical. The conversation is led by hr2 presenter Anna Engel.
Text source and further information about this event at: http://literaturhaus-frankfurt.de/programm/termine/qualitaetskontrolle-0117-2017-01-18/
