Annett Gröschner: Schwebende Lasten

In the organizer's words:

The world changed in the 20th century, several times over. A portrait from the perspective of an ordinary woman from East Germany - Annett Gröschner in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Hanna Krause's story tells the story of a woman who experienced the 20th century in all its ups and downs - with an intensity and poetry that can only come from a literary confrontation with reality.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

Registration is not required. As we have a very limited capacity on site, we kindly ask you to be at the venue early. The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
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Hanna starts out as a flower arranger and later becomes a crane operator in a heavy engineering company in Magdeburg. Her life spans two world wars, revolutions, dictatorships and democracies. She experiences the end of her flower store, the birth of six children, two of whom die before her, and the view from her crane of the hustle and bustle of the people deep below her. Despite all the upheavals, she remains true to her credo: stay decent.

In this novel, author Annett Gröschner interweaves Hanna's life story with the history of the industrial age, giving a voice to those who are often overlooked. It is a tribute to the silent heroines of the East and a portrait of an incomprehensible century from the perspective of an ordinary woman.

Floating Burdens - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair with:

🐾 Annett Gröschner has lived as a writer in Berlin since 1983. Her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (2024), co-written with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann, was recently published by Hanser. Annett Gröschner has received numerous awards, most recently the Grand Art Prize Berlin (Fontane Prize), the Klopstock Prize and the Mainz City Writer Literature Prize from ZDF, 3sat and the state capital Mainz. Her new book will be published by C.H.Beck on 20.03.2025.

🐾 Katrin Gottschalk moderates this taz Talk. She has been deputy editor-in-chief of taz since April 2016, where she is responsible for taz's digital projects and was previously editor-in-chief of Missy Magazine.

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