Event as part of the 30th Schwerin Literature Days
EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS- Reading and talk with Manja Präkels
2024 saw the launch of an unusual literary-sociological project. Three well-known authors, Manja Präkels, Tina Pruschmann and Barbara Thériault, were sent out as "Überlandschreiberinnen" (writers of the countryside) to explore the mood in East Germany and to make social fractures and tipping points visible. While Manja Präkels visited civil society initiatives and hotspots in Brandenburg, Tina Pruschmann traveled to remote regions in Saxony's Ore Mountains by bike. Barbara Thériault joined a Thuringian newspaper as a local journalist, and Alexander Leistner followed lines of mental development, some of whose beginnings can be traced back to before 1989. This resulted in literary reportages about the normalization of right-wing extremist structures and narratives, threatened cultural associations and memorials, bizarre infrastructure projects in ruined landscapes. About people who look away and remain silent, and those who do their best every day to keep breathing against the wind in the raging storm of the revaluation of all values.
Manja Präkels, born in 1974, is a German writer, editor, musician and journalist. She founded the band "Der Singende Tresen" in 2001 and initiated the Erich Mühsam Festival. Her debut novel "Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß" won several awards in 2018.
Moderation: Jette Studier, journalist
Tuesday
28. October 2025
7:00 pm
Kulturforum Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Puschkinstraße 12
Admission
Box office: €10.00 / advance booking: €7.00* (plus fee if applicable)
Organizer
Heinrich Böll Foundation MV and Cultural Office of the State capital Schwerin
