Biting satire on the literary world
City library: Marlen Hobrack reads from her debut novel "Schrödinger's Grrrl" on 29 November, 7 p.m. in the TIETZ, event hall
On Wednesday 29 November at 7 pm, interested parties are invited to a reading with Leipzig author Marlen Hobrack in the TIETZ event hall. She will be presenting her debut novel "Schrödinger's Grrrl", in which she tells the story of a young woman and a book scam, taking aim at the literary industry in particular.
Admission is free. Tickets can be reserved at: www.stadtbibliothekchemnitz.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsbuchung.
Marlen Hobrack tells the story of Mara Wolf: a school dropout in her early twenties, depressed and unemployed in Dresden. She fills her everyday life with Instagram, dating and online shopping. In a bar, Mara meets PR agent Hanno, who is impressed by her and her quirky white-trash appearance. He hires her for a party and persuades her to pretend to be a novelist. The novel was written by an old white man who, like Hanno and his editor, doesn't believe that it will sell under his name. The three men hatch a plan for a major literary success, which Mara agrees to.
"Schrödinger's Grrrl" is a contemporary coming-of-age novel, an impostor-against-her-will study, a story about a young woman who can't find a place in society because she doesn't even believe she can claim one. But there are three heroines - her mother, her best friend Charis and her caseworker Mrs Kramer at the employment agency - who won't let her down.
Marlen Hobrack was born in Bautzen in 1986 and lives in Leipzig. She studied literature, cultural and media studies and then worked for a management consultancy. Since 2016, she has been writing full-time for various newspapers and magazines, including Freitag, taz, Die Zeit, Die Welt and Monopol. In 2022, her non-fiction book "Klassenbeste. How Origin Divides Our Society" was published by Hanser Berlin in 2022.
A reading as part of the project Literaturforum Bibliothek - Autorinnen und Autoren aus Sachsen in sächsischen Bibliotheken. A project of the Saxony State Association of the German Library Association with financial support from the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts.