Event as part of the 30th Schwerin Literature Days
SCHWEBENDE LASTEN - Reading with Annett Gröschner
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, is a writer living in Berlin. She is best known for "Moskauer Eis" and "Walpurgistag". Most recently, her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (Three East German women get drunk and found the ideal state) was published together with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann. Annett Gröschner has received numerous awards.
Moderator: Kathrin Matern, journalist and bookseller
Monday
November 03, 2025
7:30 pm
Stadtbibliothek in den Schweriner Höfen, Klöresgang 3
Admission
Box office: €14.00 / advance booking €12.00* (plus fee if applicable)
Organizer
Kulturbüro der State capital Schwerin
