Lesung "Sprechen" von Daniela Dröscher

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Daniela Dröscher presents her new book "Sprechen", the evening will be hosted by Tobi Schiller.

About the book:
Daniela Dröscher's very personal story of self-empowerment - from a silent to a publicly speaking woman. And the question of how we should speak in order to really understand each other.

Speaking was never a harmless means of communication for the writer Daniela Dröscher. As the child of a newcomer to the Hunsrück region, she was caught between High German and the broad Palatinate dialect, and speaking proved to be such a double-edged act of adaptation that she preferred to remain silent. Outside of the private sphere, she also lacked the courage to stand up for her own words for a long time, the fear of being recognized or misunderstood as a social climber was too great. With radical openness, she talks about her emancipation from a shamefully silent woman to a publicly speaking woman. In doing so, she reflects on whether the willingness to misunderstand might not be the actual prerequisite for true understanding and a productive social dialog.

About Daniela Dröscher:
Daniela Dröscher, born in 1977, grew up in Rhineland-Palatinate and lives in Berlin. She writes prose, essays and theater texts. After studying German, philosophy and English in Trier and London, she completed her doctorate on Yoko Tawada's poetology at the University of Potsdam. "Zeige deine Klasse" was published in 2018, "Lügen über meine Mutter" was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2022. Most recently, her novel "Junge Frau mit Katze" was published in 2025.

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