Das Haus der Frauen – La casa delle donne

In the organizer's words:

READING & TALK

With ELISABETH PRICKEN, Berlin

Rome, early 1980s: Nelly, a street musician, ends up in an ancient palazzo occupied by feminists. Here she meets women from all over the world who, like her, are in search of a self-determined life. In the "Casa della Donna", they explore freedom, solidarity and a new (self-)consciousness together. As social circumstances deteriorate, the residents are confronted with external and internal conflicts. The dream of their own "house of women" threatens to burst. Will they succeed in preserving the place and their dignity? The story is based on a true story.

Reading with musical accompaniment and an exchange on the topic of the women's movement using the example of the Casa delle donne.

ELISABETH PRICKEN born 1963 in Cologne; as Lizzie Líbera she performs as a music poet. In the 1980s, she hitchhiked through (Western) Europe as a street musician and lived in the squatted "casa delle donne", among other places. Together with Steffi Haake, she published the satirical novels "Lila weiß Bescheid" (2007) and "Liebe, Laster, Lust" (2009) with Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen.