Kristine Bilkau: Halbinsel

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Moderated by: Alexander Solloch | NDR Kultur - Der Norden liest

A peninsula in the North Frisian Wadden Sea. Annett, in her late forties, has lived here for many years, raising her daughter Linn alone after the early death of her husband. Linn, in her mid-twenties, moved out into the world full of energy after graduating from high school and became involved as an environmental volunteer. But at a conference, during a lecture, Linn collapses, exhausted. Annett takes her to her home by the sea for a week. One week turns into two, then three weeks, then months. Torn between the pressure to perform and the search for meaning, Linn seems to be at rock bottom.

With a keen sense of interpersonal relationships, Kristine Bilkau explores the pressing questions of our time - the question of the responsibility of older people for the state of the world and the desire of younger people to fill their own lives with meaning.

Kristine Bilkau was shortlisted for the German Book Prize with her novel Nebenan 2022. She lives with her family in Hamburg.

After several years as a freelance presenter and author,Alexander Solloch has been a permanent literary editor at NDR since 2014. He was nominated for the German Radio Prize in 2011 and 2019.

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