About the rocky road to a normal life
Deborah Feldman - reading and talk - on 6 March, 7 pm at TIETZ
On Tuesday, 6 March at 7 pm, the American-German author Deborah Feldman will read from her autobiographical story "Überbitten". In conversation with publisher Christian Ruzicska, the author will be a guest at the TIETZ on the occasion of the Days of Jewish Culture.
Admission costs 8 euros, concessions 6 euros. (Advance booking at the TIETZ museum ticket office, 1st floor)
Reservations can be made by telephone on 0371 488-4366.
In her bestseller "Unorthodox", Deborah Feldman described her departure from an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Her follow-up, "Überbitten", tells of the obstacles on the path to a self-determined life. Highly political and at the same time intimate, the book is a polarising polemic and a critical self-examination.
An event organised by the Verein Förderer der Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz in cooperation with the Verein Tage der Jüdischen Kultur in Chemnitz
The book:
Shortly after her 23rd birthday, Deborah Feldman leaves the ultra-orthodox Hasidic community of Satmar Jews in Williamsburg, New York, and with it the life she described in "Unorthodox". There is no way for her to return. She follows her dream of leading a free, self-determined life together with her son. However, her everyday life becomes a struggle for survival, and despite existentially threatening poverty and constant loneliness, she manages the unimaginable: with the publication of her bestseller "Unorthodox" in 2012, she becomes a media star overnight. She leaves New York to read European literature in the country and begins to realise that her roots lie in Europe. Instinctively, she sets off in search of her beloved grandmother, who survived the Holocaust and was the only person in Williamsburg who made her feel safe and accepted. When she travels to Europe for the first time, she is still torn between fears, prejudices and doubts and the first feeling of arrival, she will finally put down roots in Berlin in the very country that she had come to know as the evil par excellence among the Satmar Hasidim.