ALTER. Texte aus »AKZENTE. Zeitschrift für Literatur«. Lesung und Gespräch mit Ingrid Bachér und Kaleb Erdmann.

In the organizer's words:

The current issue of AKZENTE features very different - young and old - voices and perspectives from 28 authors who write about the cracks, impositions, considerations, states of limbo and resolutions of old age in poems, prose pieces, letters and essays. When read together, a multi-layered picture emerges of how differently age is experienced and interpreted in literature.

The authors Ingrid Bachér and Kaleb Erdmann will present the volume at the premiere reading in the Heine Haus.

Ingrid Bachér, born in Rostock in 1930, grew up in Berlin and Lübeck as the daughter of chemistry professor and Storm's grandson Franz Bachér. After studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, she worked as a journalist and took part in Group 47 conferences in the 1950s. Until 1967 she lived in Rome, among other places, and then as a freelance writer in Munich, Krefeld and finally in Düsseldorf. She is married to the painter Ulrich Erben.

Kaleb Erdmann, born in 1991, studied literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, as well as sociology and political theory in Munich and Frankfurt am Main. He was a finalist in the open mike and has been involved in various television and entertainment formats as an author and editor. Kaleb Erdmann lives and works in Düsseldorf.