Anja Kampmann: Die Wut ist ein heller Stern

In the organizer's words:

Hedda has fought for her dream: to be an artist at the Alkazar on the Reeperbahn. But nothing matters anymore when the new uniforms appear in the audience as a matter of course in the 1930s. The space for freedom narrows and things become dangerous for the girls in the variety show too. Who can Hedda still trust? Her brother Jaan signs on as a harpoon smith on a whaler for a trip to the Antarctic. And Hedda is also looking for a way out for herself and her little brother Pauli.

Anja Kampmann tells a story of female self-assertion in an incomparably atmospheric language, which is not lacking in lightness, in a time that was completely dominated by men.

Anja Kampmann studied in Hamburg and at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her first novel Wie hoch die Wasser steigen (2018) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the German Book Prize. In 2024 she received the Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz Prize.

Martina Kothe works as a freelance illustrator and has been working as an author and presenter for ARD radio since 2000, primarily for NDR Kultur.