Friederike Gräff: Frau Zilius legt ihr erstes Ei an einem Donnerstag

In the organizer's words:

Sometimes the unexpected happens and turns our lives upside down - Friederike Gräff in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

It is these strange moments, in which we observe ourselves in amazement as we deviate from our usual paths, that Friederike Gräff captures in her stories with great empathy, a sharp eye and laconic humor.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

Registration is not required. As we have a very limited capacity on site, we kindly ask you to be at the venue early. The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
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Her stories open doors into absurd and at the same time deeply human parallel worlds. There is Ms. Zilius, who lays an egg in the middle of a delicate personnel matter and cannot explain how this is possible.

Or Sabine Kleinhans, who begins to levitate from her pew during a church service - an unexpected escape from a life stuck between bossy colleagues and an indifferent partner.

And Bernward Kreutzträger, who suddenly decides to swap human interaction for the company of a flock of sheep because the closeness of other people is too much for him.

Gräff's stories are as unusual as they are fascinating and transcend the boundaries of what we consider to be everyday life and reality. With a keen sense of the absurd, she exposes the silent riddles of our existence and shows how close the miraculous and the everyday lie to one another.

A book full of surprises that invites readers to look at themselves and life from a completely new perspective.

Ms. Zilius publishes her first One on a Thursday - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair:

🐾 Friederike Gräff is an editor at the taz in Hamburg. She has published two non-fiction books on the topics of waiting and sleep, which could form the beginning of a series on economically worthless activities. Her new book is her first volume of short stories, published by Schöffling & Co Verlag. She was awarded the Hamburg Literature Prize for a selection from it.

🐾 Doris Akrap moderates this taz Talk. Doris Akrap has worked as an editor, author and columnist at taz since 2008 and is currently head of the society section. She is also a publicist, juror, moderator and board member at Pen Berlin.

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