An event organized by the Mecklenburgische Literaturgesellschaft as part of the Uwe-Johnson-Tage 2025. Moderation: Matthias Wolf
She meets him when she is still young and he is almost old. He, the famous writer. She is just starting to write and is the mother of a young daughter. She becomes his pupil, his lover, his confidante, and they both vow to be "with each other, with all their titters and peculiarities". For 19 years, "Tosch" and the "narrator Oskamp" were a couple. The writer Katja Oskamp tells her own story. It is a novel about staying and going, about East and West, about up and down, about how love comes and how it fades.
Katja Oskamp was born in Leipzig in 1970 and grew up in Berlin. After studying theater studies, she worked as a dramaturge at the Volkstheater Rostock and studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her bestseller "Marzahn, mon amour" was published in 2019, for the English edition of which she received the Dublin Literary Award together with the translator in 2023.
