Buchpremiere Norbert Kron "Manchmal ist es sogar lustig"

In the organizer's words:

We are celebrating a book premiere! Norbert Kron presents his novel "Sometimes it's even funny. My mother, her long life and me". Shelly Kupferberg moderates.

From honey-sweet flattery to emotional blackmail to the dark threat of hell

The reader suspects that this mother-son relationship has never been easy. And it doesn't get any easier as the mother gets older. And so what should actually be a matter of course in view of a badly dented car becomes a skirmish full of feints: that the almost blind mother finally hands over her car keys. And a Herculean struggle when the son tries to get her to sign a power of attorney or even consider the help of a care service.

However, what starts out like kin-catching also brings existential insights - about love, death and family secrets: Why complicated German history made the displaced mother who she is, and how lifelong struggles can still lead to reconciliation and happiness in the end.