Milena Michiko Flašar liest aus „Der Hase im Mond“

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Reading and discussion with the author.

Who is reflected in the window pane at night? Myself or someone else? What happens when the skin becomes permeable and the air thinner? Poetic stories of people in the sand, washed out by dwindling certainties.

Milena Michiko Flašar tells of a writer with writer's block who falls in love with a vixen, of former lovers who become voyeurs out of boredom, of a woman who is caught up in the tsunami purely through the media, of two friends who get drunk over an ethical dispute, or of a passionate reader who first loses his brother and then his wife in a completely mysterious way.

These stories are about doubling and dissolving, disappearing and dreaming away, about escapes and evasions. The author's handwriting is unmistakable, the rhythm, the choice of words of her particular style. As in her novels, Milena Michiko Flašar studies various forms of loneliness and unfulfilled longings in these stories, but humorously and playfully adds a new surreal-fantastic level to the literary field.

Milena Michiko Flašar

Milena Michiko Flašar, born in St. Pölten in 1980, studied German and Romance languages and literature in Vienna and Berlin. She is the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. Her novels "Ich nannte ihn Krawatte", "Herr Kato spielt Familie" and "Oben Erde, unten Himmel" have won several awards and been translated into numerous languages. Most recently, she received the Evangelical Literature Prize, the Austrian Book Prize France and the A and A Cultural Foundation's 2025 Literature Prize. The author lives with her family in Vienna.

Admission: 19:30 h
Start: 20:00 h