LesArt.Festival: Sylvie Schenk und Heribert Leuchter – In Erwartung eines Glücks

In the organizer's words:

Sylvie Schenk's new novel about letting go and the happiness that can lie in unexpected encounters - told with lightness and humor

Text concert

Irène, a German-French writer, is admitted to hospital with a suspected stroke. She is soon given the all-clear, but has to stay in hospital for a while as a precaution and settles in. She describes her new everyday life between hospital room and examinations in an ironically sarcastic way. She remembers her husband, who died recently, meets her roommate Ada, a young Muslim woman, and an enigmatic patient whom she calls the "frog man" and who reminds her of Houellebecq. In her confrontation with him, she reflects on her own writing, on life and death. There are few people who can talk about this with such ease as Sylvie Schenk.

Sylvie Schenk was born in Chambéry, France, in 1944, studied in Lyon and has lived in Germany since 1966. Sylvie Schenk has published poetry in French and has been writing in German since 1992. She lives near Aachen and in La Roche-de-Rame, Hautes-Alpes. Her novels "Schnell, dein Leben" (2016), "Eine gewöhnliche Familie" (2018), "Roman d'amour" (2021) and "Maman" (2023) were published by Hanser.