LESELUST: The search for the right protest
Heike Geißler reads from her new novel "Die Woche" on 5 May, 7 pm, TIETZ ATTENTION: the event has to be cancelled due to illness and will be postponed to 2 June, 7 pm
On Thursday, 5 May at 7 pm, the city library invites you to a reading by Heike Geißler in the TIETZ event hall. The author will be reading from her novel "Die Woche" at LESELUST.
Admission costs 8 euros, concessions 6 euros. Please register by calling 0371 4884366
The book:
"Politics, Europe, the present, everyday life, nobody can tell you that this has no effect," the narrator exclaims to her friend Constanze. Together they are the proletarian princesses - "princesses like you don't find in every book. But just wait, we'll write ourselves into the books". Together they want to resist. To start a revolt. To rewrite the old fairy tales. Because something has gone off the rails: Suddenly more and more montages are crowding into the week. There are giants who appear as if from a fairy tale. There is death, which, just exhausted, becomes more and more of an actor. There is an invisible child who pleads to be born. There is the most beautiful novel in the world in white jeans. So it's high time to overcome all powerlessness.
This is the novel of an unusual week in Leipzig, in which Monday is no longer followed by Tuesday, old certainties are lost and new forms of speaking and acting in solidarity are tried out - in exaggeration, digression, folly and play. It is a lucid commentary on our present, a plea for fun, intelligent protest and the struggle for vitality - radically subjective and highly political.
- Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2022 (shortlist)
- SWR best list
The author:
Heike Geißler was born in Riesa in 1977 and grew up there and in Chemnitz. She is an author, translator and co-editor of the magazine series Lücken kann man lesen. Her most recent publications include the reportage novel Saisonarbeit (Spector Books, 2014), the question booklet and radio play Fragen für alle as well as the collaborative literature project Check your habitus, curated by Daniela Dröscher. She works with actress Charlotte Puder as the collective George Bele.
Heike Geißler has been honoured with numerous scholarships and prizes and now lives in Leipzig.