"Eiszeit" - Lesung mit Gert Eckel im Studio 22

In the organizer's words:

Gert Eckel reads from his recently published novel "Eiszeit"
on Thursday, April 3 at 7 pm at Studio 22, Levetzowstr. 22, 10555 Berlin.


About the book:
As much as they search for it, they can't find it, their peace. Their personal environment is so burdened by failed and successful escapes that the state authorities also distrust them. The fact that Thorsten is a conscientious objector and that his wife Kathrin's brother was shot while trying to get over the Wall with help from West Berlin weighs too heavily. Even their first night of love, which Kathrin and Thorsten experience together during a harvesting operation, is not under a good star.

Their own escape is initially only an internal one. They live in seclusion and try to stay under the radar of the omnipresent watchdogs. They secretly meet up with like-minded people with whom they draw up escape plans. At the same time, they hope to be protected by Thorsten's father, an engineer who was honored by the state for his achievements in the construction of the television tower in Berlin. They even dared to start a family, but withdrew their children Paula and Peter from the socialist education system.

But the noose is tightened around them. Thorsten can no longer withstand the pressure and flees to West Berlin. Now the noose tightens around the little family. Paula and Peter are sent to a reformatory. The second part of their joint plan to have the children and Kathrin ransomed by West German authorities is also doomed to failure. The attempt to free Paula and Peter from the home fails dramatically....

The author is an intimate connoisseur of the escape helper scene of the 70s and 80s.

About the author:
Gert Eckel, born in 1940, studied architecture in Vienna and Berlin under Hans Scharoun, among others, as well as literature, music history and psychology. He then worked as a freelance architect specializing in housing. In addition, stage design for theater and opera in Berlin (Schiller- and Schlossparktheater) and Darmstadt (Staatstheater). First literary work published by Pattloch/Droemer in 2014 She calls it going away. Irm was published by Osburg Verlag in 2023, Unter dem Regenbogen in 2024. The author lives in Berlin.

https://www.osburg-verlag.de/seite/752456/eiszeit.html