Annett Gröschner: Schwebende Lasten

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Reading as part of the LiteraTour Nord, moderated by Matthias Lorenz

ON THE LONGLIST FOR THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE 2025!

Hanna Krause was a flower arranger before life turned her into a crane operator. She experienced two revolutions, two dictatorships, an uprising, two world wars and two defeats, two democracies, the Kaiser and other leaders, good times and bad. Later, from a crane in the hall of a heavy machinery factory in Magdeburg, she had a good view of the relationships of the people ten meters below her and died in time before she no longer understood the world. Her constant credo: stay decent.

Annett Gröschner, born in Magdeburg, is a writer living in Berlin. She has received numerous awards, including the Fontane Prize (2021) and the Klopstock Prize (2021). Most recently, her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (2024) was published together with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann.

Matthias Lorenz is Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

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