Lesung: Ada. Eine Federlese

In the organizer's words:

Cologne authors' collective presents new project

"As if the words wanted to take root"

Christina Bacher, Marco Hasenkopf, Christian Linker, Sabine Schiffner read from the novel project "Ada. A feather reading"

Christina Bacher, Marco Hasenkopf, Christian Linker and Sabine Schiffner read from their unpublished novel project "Ada. Eine Federlese". For this project, the Cologne-based collective of authors - funded by the Cologne Cultural Office - explored the situation of women artists in Cologne over four centuries. The story is about the homeless writer Ada, who - having fled to Cologne from the former Yugoslavia at the end of the 1980s - owns a historical pen and has set herself the task of collecting and writing down the life stories of her "sisters in spirit" - from female authors to scribes to publishers. When she meets the young author Nele, she tells all these stories, from Anna-Maria Schurmann (1607-1678) to Mathilde Anneke (1817-1884) and Irmgard Keun (1905-1982). All of these women found it difficult to write, many of them were expelled from their homeland or even silenced. When Nele learns that Ada also knew her mother Margot, who died young, she pricks up her ears. Is there such a story to tell about her?