Behind every great name there is often an even more interesting story - Tanja Dückers tells the story of Annemarie Böll.
Author reading with Tanja Dückers: The life of Annemarie Böll
Tanja Dückers is a freelance author, lecturer and literary scholar. Teaching assignments and scholarships have taken her to many places inside and outside Germany, including Los Angeles, Barcelona, Prague, Krakow, Bucharest, Gotland (Sweden) and Ahrenshoop. She speaks regularly on Deutschlandfunk radio and elsewhere on socio-political issues. She is a member of PEN Berlin and Amnesty International and is committed to promoting young literary talent.
She was commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation to write a book about a very special woman: Annemarie Böll. Without the strength and support of his wife, Heinrich Böll, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, would not have been able to pursue his career as an artist. But Annemarie Böll was much more than that, she was a socio-political activist, a critic of the church (the Bölls left the Catholic Church), a talented translator and editor. She was also the mother of four sons. Annemarie Böll embodies the emancipatory spirit of awakening in its bourgeois-pacifist form. This book is a tribute to this special woman.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 6.30 pm Graal-Müritz Baths Library
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