LESEZEICHEN – live in Tegel: Daniela Dröscher: „Junge Frau mit Katze“

In the organizer's words:

Everything is difficult before it becomes easy!

Throughout her life, Ela literally stood in her mother's shadow. Her fat body,

her father was convinced, was responsible for the unhappiness of the whole family. Now Ela is an adult and it is her own body, her sick body, that makes her despair. Shortly before completing her doctorate, Ela experiences a breakdown.

While she unconsciously wrestles with the question of whether she really deserves her place in the academic world, her body rebels: her throat, her heart, her skin - Ela is on fire and panics more and more.

Just like the story of her mother, to whom Daniela Dröscher dedicated her hugely successful novel "Lies About My Mother", Ela's late self-discovery and self-empowerment is masterfully constructed as autofiction, psychologically captivating and ravishingly funny.

Daniela Dröscher, born in 1977, holds a doctorate in media studies from the University of Potsdam and a diploma in scenic writing from the University of Graz. Her debut novel "Die Lichter des George Psalmanazar" was published in 2009 and was awarded the Robert Gernhardt Prize (2017), among others. The novel "Lügen über meine Mutter" (2022) was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and will soon be shown in cinemas.

Moderation: Claudia Johanna Bauer

An event in cooperation with the VHS Reinickendorf as part of the series LESEZEICHEN Literatur live in Tegel.

Price information:

Box Office: normal price 8€ / reduced 5€