feeLit 2025: Marlene Streeruwitz

In the organizer's words:

From June 29 to July 12, feeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg will be hosting its authors at halle02 for the first time. This new festival venue will be all about books and writing. This year, feeLit presents national and international literary stars and brings authors together with their audience.

Marlene Streeruwitz - Resolutions.

Moderation: tbd

Author

Marlene Streeruwitz, born in Baden near Vienna, is one of the most important voices in contemporary German-language literature. She studied Slavic studies and art history and is a freelance author and director. Her novels have received numerous awards, including the Bremen Literature Prize, the Prize of the Houses of Literature and the Vienna Book Prize.

Book

New York, March 2024: A few months before Donald Trump's possible re-election, Viennese poet Nina Wagner is teaching for a semester at a university in Manhattan. She has left her worries about her daughter and the disappointments of her previous life in Vienna behind her - but the reality in the USA confronts her with new crises. The aftermath of the pandemic, social hardship and political tensions characterize daily life. Culture threatens to be suppressed for good. In Auflösungen., Marlene Streeruwitz paints a vivid portrait of the political and social state of America - and at the same time a personal picture of uprooting, loss and inner resistance.