Gaslicht

In the organizer's words:

In Jessica Jurassica's second novel, an experience of violence has turned the protagonist into a kind of seismograph: what happened reverberates within her and wants to be recorded. And the louder the present, the louder her past, she realizes when she becomes embroiled in the first major Swiss #MeToo scandal. So she embarks on a journey to get to the bottom of the trauma and re-empower her story: walks by the sea, trauma theory in New York and spiritual redemption in central Switzerland.

"Gaslicht" confronts the fragmentary nature of memory. How can the nature of trauma be narrated? How can a text do justice to the violence survived? To get to the bottom of these questions, Jurassica peels back layers of time and dissects patriarchal narratives. In its linguistic and narrative complexity, "Gaslicht" repeatedly breaks out of the inherent pop-cultural framework and builds on an intergenerational feminist foundation. For example, "Gaslicht" refers to works by Louise Bourgeois, Verena Stefan, Carmen Maria Machado and Tarana Burke.

In "Gaslight", Jessica Jurassica publicly addresses patriarchal violence and its consequences. As trauma researcher Judith Herman has stated: trauma is a social problem, so healing it must be a public matter.

Price information:

Advance booking 12 €, Box Office 15 € 5 € discount for Freundeskreis students