Ulrike Draesner: »penelopes sch()iff«

In the organizer's words:

The Odyssey retold as the story of its misappropriated heroines

What is the best way to deal with the greatest myth in Western cultural history? You put it in a pickle jar - after all, it has to be transported. At least that's what Penelope and her companions do when Ulrike Draesner sends them out to sea to give the world an alternative narrative to the patriarchal original.

Ulrike Draesner's re-reading is intoxicating in its fearlessness, inventiveness, wit and poetic furor. Everything is set in motion in this epic poem and at the same time always remains connected: languages, spaces, times, meaning.

Ulrike Draesner writes novels, essays and poems. She has been a professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig since April 2018.

Saskia Fischer studied philosophy, comparative literature, art history, literature and history. She has been a research assistant at Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2020.