Ella Carina Werner ...liest "Der Hahn erläutert unentwegt der Henne, wie man Eier legt"

In the organizer's words:

Ella Carina Werner, born in 1979, grew up in Westphalia as the daughter of a belly dancer and a psychotherapist, and when she is on stage today, it is a unique mixture of both. As a columnist and co-editor of "Titanic", she is one of the most accomplished and funniest satirists in Germany. In her acclaimed autobiographical stories, which "sound like Kafka after a good joint" (Spiegel Online), she tells of Asian sex tourists on the Reeperbahn, her love of disturbing night train rides, whisky tastings for women and the ideal funeral. She is a member of the monthly reading stage "Dem Pöbel zur Freude" at the Centralkomitee in Hamburg, where she has lived for a long time. She reads solo from her stories and chats in between about everything from childhood and politics to the pros and cons of polyamory.

In February 2025, Kunstmann Verlag will publish her new book "Der Hahn erläutert unentwegt der Henne, wie man Eier legt" from which she will read stories and poems here today.

Why do Krakow women actually have eight arms? So that they can masturbate better. And why are Highland cows so hairy? Because they don't care at all whether the bulls find it desirable or not. Ella Carina Werner reads poems: rhymed, highly comical "feminist animal poems", teeming with self-confident, heavily empowered females. All the carousing chickens, man-killing black widows and lazy toads in Werner's first volume of poetry have long known for themselves what is good for them: "From the cradle to the grave, the lioness wears armpit hair" and "The owl loves herself as she is: anarcho-punk and anti-Christ".

In addition, the celebrated satirist and Titanic co-editor presents a whole host of everyday yet completely whimsical stories from her life as a wife, mother and socialite. The topics range from crashes at the local whiskey tasting to dubious night train acquaintances and underground flirtations on the Reeperbahn.