Reading & Talk with Lize Spit and Special Guest Jane Chirwa

In the organizer's words:

Writing, to distance oneself.
Writing, to reconnect.

A mother dying.
A body, including its language, finding its way back home.

Lize Spit, Samuel Fischer Guest Professor for Summer Semester 2026, and Malu Schrader, editor and cultural journalist, discuss Lize's debut novel Het smelt (And it melts, 2017, S. Fischer Verlag) and Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (Autobiography of my body, 2025). Lize's work invites the audience to reflect on the idea that our bodies are connected to our roots, our parents and our childhood.
How can writing shape these relationships, parallels, and reconstructions? How is language not only a matter of the mind, but also of the body? A conversation about growing up in an environment where language is used as a tool of power-and about the price of becoming, and being, a writer.

Jane Chirwa will read excerpts from Autobiografie meines Körpers in German.

The event will be held in English. Free admission.

ENTRANCE & START - 7.00 pm

The Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship is realized by S. Fischer Verlag, Freie Universität Berlin, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and Holtzbrinck Berlin - Inspire Together.

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