Biography of a complex generation
City Library: Reading with Grit Lemke on 26 November, 5 pm, TIETZ
On Saturday 26 November at 5 pm, author and filmmaker Grit Lemke will be reading from her book "Kinder von Hoy: Freiheit, Glück und Terror" at the TIETZ Central Library. Admission is free of charge. Please register by calling 0371 488 4222 or sending an e-mail to information(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de.
Grit Lemke, whose Grimme Prize-nominated film "Gundermann Revier" took a deep look into the life of her hometown of Hoyerswerda, is now working on the biography of her complex generation. In a documentary novel, she interweaves the voices of the children of Hoy to create a captivating oral history.
In the sixties and seventies, they came with their parents to Hoyerswerda, a model GDR town: rammed out of the heath, assembled from building elements. In the mornings, the parents roll off in shift buses and the children grow up in a large collective. The narrator becomes part of the cultural and art scene around Gerhard Gundermann, the Springsteen of the East. A kind of proletarian bohemia develops: at night in the basement club, in the morning on the shift bus. But reunification was followed by mass redundancies, and latent racism against contract workers living in the city and a rapidly growing right-wing movement led to riots. The cultural scene remains inactive, but even for them, nothing will ever be the same again...
A reading as part of the project Literaturforum Bibliothek - Autoreninnen und Autoren aus Sachsen in sächsischen Bibliotheken - organised by the Landesverband Sachsen im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband e. V. (Saxony State Association of the German Library Association).
The Saxon State Association of the German Library Association is supported by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.