Anke Stelling: Schäfchen im Trockenen
In the organizer's words:
Literatür.jetzt. Feminist voices from everyday working life
Who cares? The Literatür .jetzt reading series is entering its second round. This time with a focus on stories by and about women and other FLINTA* people in the context of the world of work. Inevitably, topics such as unpaid care work, access and opportunities to education and paid work come up. Equally omnipresent are role expectations and attributions within the family, among friends, dealing with insecurity or suppressed anger.
* (The acronym FLINTA stands for women, lesbians, inter, non-binary, trans and agender people).
Resi could have known that subletting between friends is not the safest form of housing, because: What is friendship? As we all know, it ends with money. In the case of Resi's old clique, it has become so fragile over the years that Frank has felt like sorting out, old tenancy agreements included. Resi could have known that when she started a family at the latest, the hereditary part of the clique would turn towards home ownership and isolation and that she, as a child on the rise, would have to watch how she kept up. But Resi didn't know. Back in the 1980s, it was said that all people were equal and would soon be able to live together fairly through virtue and insight. The failure of her parents in this respect had to be concealed, so there were only three stories from her mother's life, and there is no more than one sentence in her diary. Resi is furious about this. And determined to enlighten her children, whether they like it or not. She talks about herself, about the past, about the promise of an alternative life and her arrival in everyday marital and parental life. And also about what it's like to be a narrator, to become the protagonist of your own story against inner shame and external accusation.
Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019 | Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2019 | SWR Best List February 2019
Anke Stelling studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her novel "Fürsorge" was published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2017.
Her novel "Schäfchen im Trockenen" (2018) was awarded the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. In 2020, the short story collection "Grundlagenforschung", the first volume in the short form series, was published by Verbrecher Verlag. In June 2019, she was awarded the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize by the city of Bad Homburg. Anke Stelling's prose analyzes contemporary middle-class society in a highly sensitive way. Her most recent novels 'Bodentiefe Fenster', 'Fürsorge' and 'Schäfchen im Trockenen' together form a trilogy of modern community. With sociological precision, Anke Stelling shows how and with what consequences today's bourgeoisie has been infected by the anti-bourgeois values of 1968: the desire for self-realization, pleasurable consumption and creativity. But where is art in this context? And how can a writer and at the same time a caring mother participate? And what tone should literature choose for its explorations? Anke Stelling's work is dedicated to these questions: as curious as it is sometimes angry, but above all with the actual forms of knowledge of the poetic: with precision, sensitivity and humor.
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