Unusual mother-daughter relationship
City Library: Josefine Soppa reads from "Mirmar" on 17 October, 7 pm at the Stefan-Heym-Forum, TIETZ
Josefine Soppa will be reading from her debut novel "Mirmar" on Thursday 17 October at 7 pm.
The reading will take place in the Stefan-Heym-Forum, TIETZ, 3rd floor. Admission is free of charge.
Registration is required at: Stadtbibliothek_Veranstaltungsbuchung.
In "Mirmar", mother and daughter keep their heads above water by subletting their flats, working digital temp jobs and using a massage table. Until the mother disappears one day. The daughter suspects she is on a stretch of beach by the sea, where she is supposed to be living with other women in accommodation run by former package holiday providers. She sets off on a search. On her journey, she remembers her mother, her fears and longings, the precarious, fragile life that she faced with great courage and encounters a movement of women who come together in a collective by the sea and try out a life beyond care work, poverty in old age and experienced inequality. An atmospheric debut and a tender portrait of mother and daughter, whose impact gradually seeps in.
Josefine Soppa, born in Oberhausen in 1988, lives in Leipzig. She studied Philosophy of the Arts and Media in Dresden and Hildesheim. In 2020, she received the open mike prose prize and was a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.
A reading as part of the Saxon Literature Council's "Landpartie" project with award-winning authors and translators from Saxony.