Moderator: Nils Husmann (chrismon)
With sign language interpreters Anette Kumant and Yvonne Barilaro
Three new female authors, three debuts
"I must never have children," is how Luise Maier's "Dass wir uns haben" (Wallstein Verlag) begins, a sentence repeated over and over again, a whole notebook long. The pages of the book in this chamber play, however, are not completely written. This creates space to breathe, when one can hardly bear the domestic violence and the meagre life on the one hand and the struggle for tenderness and closeness on the other. Juliana Kálnay's award-winning "Short Chronicle of Gradual Disappearance" (Wagenbach) opens up a wondrous cosmos. Things are mysterious in the house at number 29: a man freezes into a tree, a homeless man moves into the lift. Episodes of a house community with beings in which the transitions between humans, animals and plants are fluid. Jovana Reisinger describes the disintegration of a young woman in "Still halten" (Verbrecher Verlag). This titular inaction pervades the entire novel: a woman waits, asking herself again and again, "What kind of woman am I?" A portrait of a lost woman in search of herself. The conversation is led by chrismon editor Nils Husmann.
Text source and further information about this event: https://literaturhaus-frankfurt.en/program/schedules/quality-control-0118-with-juliana-kalnay-luise-maier-and-jovana-reisinger-2018-01-31/
