Carolin Würfel: Zuhause ist das Wetter unzuverlässig

In the organizer's words:

A woman books a ticket and sets herself a deadline. Summer is the end, she writes in her diary. In the new city by the sea, under the glistening sun, she wants to escape the expectations she has lived her life by for too long. She doesn't want children, she wants sex, she wants uncompromising freedom. But can she simply cast off the old patterns? What does she know of the resistant, acquiescent, struggling women in her family whose lives have inscribed themselves on hers, of Anna and Rosa, Ella and Viola, of her mother Romy? Carolin Würfel interweaves the fast pulse of the present with the story of three generations of women until the patterns of female life that are breathing down the main character's neck emerge. A multi-layered novel about the question of whether we can really be free.

Carolin Würfel, born in Leipzig in 1986, studied history and journalism in Berlin and Istanbul. She works as a freelance author and journalist, in particular for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. In 2019 she published "Ingrid Wiener and the Art of Liberation", in 2022 "Three Women Dreamed of Socialism" about the GDR writers Brigitte Reimann, Christa Wolf and Maxie Wander.