“Silence! Let her talk!” Maria Schrader reads Ilse Aichinger
with Maria Schrader
In “Mirror Story”, Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) tells the life story of a woman backwards. For this book, the Austrian author won the Prize of Group of 47 in 1952. Her novel “The Greater Hope” (1948) is considered a milestone in German-language literature, an artistic web of dreams, myths and history, told from the perspective of a girl trying to survive while on the run. Ilse Aichinger’s thoughts and feelings revolve around the Holocaust, loss and falling silent. She searches for the “bad words, not the pretty sentences in nice journals” and yet she always hits the right note. This is also true of Maria Schrader, when she empathetically approaches Aichinger’s exceptional work with all its tensions and paradoxes. Concept: Joachim Hoell
Event data
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Date:
Friday
20. October 2023
20:00 -
Pre Pre sale price (fees excluded) 26 € | 22 € erm.
Eve Evening fund price 32 € | 28 € erm.
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Halle 5
UNESCO-Welterbe ZollvereinGelsenkirchener Straße 181
Parkplatz A1 und A2, Essen -
Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
