Reading & talk with Manja Präkels
2024 saw the launch of an unusual literary-sociological project. Three renowned authors, Manja Präkels, Tina Pruschmann and Barbara Thériault, were sent out as "overland writers" to explore the mood in East Germany and make social fractures and tipping points visible. While Manja Präkels specifically 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 mental lines of 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" (When I Ate Schnapps Cherries with Hitler) won several awards in 2018.
Moderation: Jette Studier, journalist
Box office: €10.00 / advance booking: €7.00
Organizer: inside: Heinrich Böll Foundation MV and Cultural Office of the State capital Schwerin
