Saša Stanišíc reads at the Central Library
Next Thursday, 11 April at 7 pm, Saša Stanišíc will be reading from his book "Origin" in the central library in the TIETZ, event hall. Tickets can be purchased for 5 euros, reduced 3 euros at the box office or in advance at the museum box office in the TIETZ, 1st floor. The event is organised by Chemnitz University of Technology, Chair of Modern German and Comparative Literature in cooperation with Chemnitz City Library.
"Herkunft" is a book about the first coincidence in our biography: being born somewhere. And about everything that follows. Saša Stanišíc was born in 1978 in Visegrad, then Bosnia-Herzegovina, fled to Germany with his family in 1992 during the civil war, studied in Heidelberg and at the Leipzig Institute of Literature. His first novel "Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert" was published in 2006, followed by "Vor dem Fest" and the short story collection "Fallensteller".
In "Herkunft" (Luchterhand, 2019), he brings together stories and essays about leaving and arriving, about remembered and invented homelands, about many summers. The summer when his grandfather stepped on his grandmother's foot while dancing to such an extent that he was almost never born. The summer when he almost drowned. The summer in which Angela Merkel had the borders opened and which resembled the summer in which he himself fled across many borders. Told in a mischievously playful tone of cheerful melancholy that plays the entire keyboard of life.