Yuko Kuhn »Onigiri« | Lesung & Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

Parental home, family, mother tongue - that must help, thinks Aki and travels to Japan with her demented mother Keiko after the death of her grandmother. Keiko absorbs everything in amazement - and immediately forgets it again. She asks Aki who she is, why she calls her mom. But slowly memories return, and Aki recognizes the courageous, ambitious woman Keiko once was before she went to Germany as a young teacher. Yuko Kuhn uses conversations, photos and letters to develop an autofictional German-Japanese mother-daughter story between the present and the past. She sensitively traces how Keiko slips from silent acquiescence and speechlessness into dementia - and how Aki learns to deal with it lovingly. A plea for understanding across generations and cultures and for the power of memories.
The event will be moderated by Ulrich Noller.

Price information:

VVK: € 8, B.O.: € 10 | reduced: € 5