Reading & discussion as part of the LiteraTOUR Nord | Moderation: Dr. Stephan Lesker (University of Rostock)
Hanna Krause was a flower arranger before life turned her into a crane operator. She lived through two revolutions, two dictatorships, an uprising, two world wars and two defeats, two democracies, the Kaiser and other leaders, good times and bad, gave birth to six children and was unable to bury two of them, which affected her to the end of her life. Later, after her flower store was long gone, she had a good view of the relationships of the people ten meters below her from a crane in the hall of a heavy machinery factory in Magdeburg and died in time before she no longer understood the world. Until her death, Hanna Krause remained someone who took life as it came. Her only credo: to remain decent. Annett Gröschner's novel tells the story of a century in a single life and, with Hanna, gives a face to those who too often remain invisible. A novel about the end of the industrial age and its heroines in East Germany - and about an ordinary woman in this incomprehensible 20th century.
Annett Gröschner, born in Magdeburg in 1964, has lived as a writer in Berlin since 1983. She is best known for her novels "Moskauer Eis" (2000) and "Walpurgistag" (2011). Most recently, her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (2024), co-written with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann, was published by Hanser. Annett Gröschner has received numerous awards, most recently the Grand Art Prize Berlin (Fontane Prize), the Klopstock Prize and the Mainz City Writer Literature Prize from ZDF, 3sat and the state capital Mainz.
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The Literaturhaus Rostock is funded by the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock and the Ministry of Science, Culture and Federal and European Affairs.
