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With the author Grit Lemke

Hoyerswerda - once a model GDR town where parents rolled off in shift buses in the morning and children grew up in a collective - became sadly famous as a result of the racist riots in 1991. In her documentary novel (published in 2021, Hans Fallada Prize 2024), Grit Lemke interweaves the voices of the children of Hoy to create a stirring oral history and gives a voice to a generation for whom "dream and trauma" were closely intertwined. She gathers together conversations with friends and family and tells of her own life as part of a proletarian bohemian group around Gerhard Gundermann, who met in the basement club at night and worked hard during the day. When neo-Nazis commit the first pogrom of the post-war period after reunification, the cultural scene remains inactive. After that, nothing is as it was. "One of the best books about the East" (mdr) Bestseller in FOCUS, stern & Börsenblatt, SPIEGEL bestseller.

GRIT LEMKE, born 1965 in Spremberg; grew up in Hoyerswerda; studied cultural studies, ethnology and literature in Leipzig, 1999 doctorate at Humboldt University Berlin. She has been working for film festivals since 1991, for many years for DOK Leipzig, where she was head of the film program until 2017. Head of the German-Sorbian section "Heimat | Domownja | Domizna" at the Cottbus Film Festival until 2022. Her works include 2019 "Gundermann Revier" cinema documentary, director (Grimme Prize nomination); 2023 "Bei uns heißt sie Hanka/Pla nas gronje jej Hanka/Pola nas rěka wona Hanka" (cinema documentary, director)

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