PHOTO: © Julia Sellmann

Hannah Lühmann und Caroline Schmitt

In the organizer's words:

Hannah Lühmann and Caroline Schmitt present their novels "Heimat" and "Monstergott"!

It's difficult to talk about just an opiate for the people. Narcotics lurk in the suburbs and at summer camps, they come from childhood and from smartphones. Above all, however, they creep into our consciousness via everyday life, concealed by seemingly perfect facades.

In Hannah Lühmann's novel "Heimat" (hanserblau), Jana moves to the village, wants to start afresh and escape the hustle and bustle. Through her new friend and Tradwife influencer Karolin, she gets caught up in an ideological maelstrom fed by Instagram. The seemingly dystopian background weaves the rise of the AfD into the plot.

Ben and Esther are also caught up in it. In "Monstergott" (Ullstein), Caroline Schmitt describes the awakening of a brother and sister from a strictly Christian childhood. However, they both begin to negotiate existential questions. In their attempts to break rehearsed patterns, their past catches up with them.

Manipulation, ideology and the difficult path to coming of age: both novels shed light on major social problems of our time, the effects of which become tangible through reading.

Moderator: Nora Gantenbrink

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Price information:

€ 16,-/12,- Hall ticket € 6,- Livestream

Location

Literaturhaus Hamburg Schwanenwik 38 22087 Hamburg

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