Annett Gröschner »Schwebende Lasten«

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January 6, 2026 / 7.30 pm / Literature Café

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Annett Gröschner "Floating Loads"

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 emperor 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 (C.H. Beck 2025).

Annett Gröschner, born in Magdeburg in 1964, is best known for her novels "Moskauer Eis" (2000) and "Walpurgistag" (2011). 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 by Hanser. Annett Gröschner has received numerous awards, most recently the Fontane and Klopstock Prizes. "Schwebende Lasten" was nominated for the German Book Prize 2025.

Admission: 10,- / 7,- EUR

Event organized by Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V.