Lesung - "Manchmal weißt du, was geschehen wird" von Lina Thiede

In the organizer's words:

Reading, talk & book party with Lina Thiede

Lina Thiede reads from her new novel "Sometimes you know what will happen" (Radiator Verlag, 2025)

We cordially invite you to celebrate Lina's new novel with us! In addition to a reading with a discussion, there will be a champagne reception and a party! We look forward to seeing you.

Moderator: Sophia Bahl

Sometimes you know what will happen

How far do we go when we go hungry?

In the 22nd century, the problem of human nutrition seems to have been solved. The major crises have been overcome. Decline and decay seem to have been halted and the world believes itself to be in a fairer, more peaceful state.

This 'peace' is based on a new type of technology, a shift in the basic structure of humanity. Human-like beings, the Nutritors, have become the only source of food for the majority of the population. They have a second organ that seems familiar: an umbilical cord that connects people, nourishes them, but also makes them dependent. Hunger, always linked to a person, becomes personal and is at war with love, family and self-determination.

"Sometimes You Know What Will Happen" is a lucid transhumanist vision that takes aim at the pressing questions of our time, in the tradition of Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.

Lina Thiede, born in 1996, studied Comparative Literature, Musicology and Theories and Practices of Professional Writing in Saarbrücken, Bonn and Cologne. She is a multiple winner of the Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thüringen. She also won the hr2 Literature Prize in 2021 and 2022 and the Berlin Prize for Science Fiction in 2024. Lina Thiede was a scholarship holder of the Hessian Literature Council in Wolfhagen, the Goethe-Institut Czech Republic in Broumov Monastery and writer in residence of the city of Gelsenkirchen. She is co-founder and editor of the literary journal Handjob and initiator and co-organizer of the Kölner Frauen:zimmer, a writing workshop by female authors for writing FLINTA. In 2020, Lina Thiede's debut novel Homo Femininus was published by The Dandy Is Dead; she has also published various short stories in anthologies and literary magazines.

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