Reading & discussion as part of the Queerfeminist Festival Weeks | Moderation: Ulrika Rinke (Literaturhaus Rostock)
Christian Lotz's world is orderly: champagne breakfast with his parents on Sundays, work at the gym during the week. Christian is a queer single man in a small town in Saxony, 30 years old, muscular and good-looking, but nervous and fragile inside: what effect does he have on others? Why can't he find the right person? What does the future hold in times of climate change, right-wing extremism and pandemics? And isn't he perhaps already terminally ill, as his daily internet searches would have him believe? Worry and panic grow inside him, and soon there is no longer any reason for them. It is only when he is in dire straits that Christian opens up to his surroundings and finds out: Fear shared is fear halved.
Res Sigusch studied Philosophy and Literature at the FU Berlin and Literary Writing at the Hildesheim Literature Institute until 2021, where he organized and moderated the event series "Diesen Satz streichen: Sexismus im Literaturbetrieb". Res Sigusch's debut "Essential Needs" was published by Berlin Verlag in 2024
Advance sale €5 plus fee at the press center/at mvticket.de, box office: €8
Students of the University of Rostock/hmt Rostock free with the AStA culture ticket. Registration: reservierung@literaturhaus-rostock.de
Venue: Literaturhaus Rostock (in the Peter-Weiss-Haus), Doberaner Str. 21, 18057 Rostock
A cooperation between Literaturhaus Rostock and Peter-Weiss-Haus e.V. as part of the Queerfeminist Festival Weeks 2026.
