Roswitha Quadflieg – Überlegungen und Lesung aus zwei Tagebüchern: 1936 und 1946 – Samuel Beckett und Will Quadflieg

In the organizer's words:

Two books by RQ form the basis of this evening:

"Beckett was here" (2006 Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg) and "Ich will lieber schweigen. Das Tagebuch eines Schauspielers 1945/46 und die Fragen seiner Tochter" (2025 Kanon, Berlin).

The juxtaposition of these texts reveals two very different attitudes towards the National Socialists - one before, the other after the Second World War. Captured in notebooks and pocket diaries of two young men, hidden in their coats. Two men who wrote cultural history in their own way.

Roswitha Quadflieg, born in Zurich, studied painting, graphic art, illustration and typography in Hamburg and worked from 1973 to 2003 as a book artist and publisher in her own publishing workshop Raamin-Presse in Schenefeld on the outskirts of Hamburg. Here she printed works of world literature with her own original graphics in limited editions. Awards, exhibitions, purchases worldwide. She has also been a writer since 1985, exclusively since 2003. She writes novels, plays and radio plays. Today she lives in Berlin.
Recent publications (selection): "Ich will lieber schweigen" (Kanon), "Ein Mann seiner Zeit", "Ihr Wart doch meine Feinde", (Faber & Faber), "Das kurze Leben des Giuseppe M." (Transit), "Neun Monate. On the death of my mother" (Aufbau).