LesArt.Festival: Elina Penner - Die Unbußfertigen

In the organizer's words:

The net as an echo chamber, visibility as currency, silence as punishment.

Ten people, just like those produced by the web, accept an invitation to a remote manor house. An event? Definitely, just without a reception. Among them is a mother who has turned her children into a brand. A bus driver between a healing stone and hate speech. An influencer with the most famous ass in the country. Three women with follower numbers like share prices. Seven men in the comments section. But suddenly everything is real. Offline. More and more of them disappear. And someone is watching.

Elina Penner, born a Soviet citizen in 1987, has been explaining for over 30 years why she is a Mennonite-Plautdietsche German and not a Russian. Thanks to her debut novel "Nachtbeeren", published in 2022, there is less explaining to do. As she loves contrasts, she studied in both Bavaria and Berlin. She has been living back in her native East Westphalia for years, from where she runs the online magazine "Hauptstadtmutti". Her texts have appeared in Der Spiegel, Vogue and 11 Freunde. She has also published "Migrantenmutti" with Aufbau Verlag.