Heike Geißler: Michaela Kohlhaas (NDR Kultur – Der Norden liest)

In the organizer's words:

Two hundred years later, Michael Kohlhaas' campaign of revenge still serves as a model and guide for Michaela Kohlhaas, a deputy cemetery administrator. Fueled by her experience of arbitrariness and powerlessness, she becomes a rebel. But where Michael Kohlhaas murders and pillages, she acts primarily with words: with exaggeration, exaggeration, sabotage and show.

Heike Geißler's Michaela Kohlhaas is a daring rewriting of the famous novella by Heinrich von Kleist. Her Michaela is a scolding, a stinking, a tender one. A great lover who doesn't just want improvement - she demands reparation and atonement. And a completely different arrangement of the world.

Heike Geißler is an author who also works across different genres in various formations (Sabotique and George Bele). She has received numerous prizes for her work, most recently the Bavarian Book Prize.

Lisa Kreißler studied theater studies in Erlangen and literary writing in Leipzig. She is the author of three novels and works as a literary critic and baker.

THE EVENT WILL BE RECORDED AND BROADCAST ON 28.06.26 AT 8 PM IN THE SUNDAY STUDIO ON NDR KULTUR.