Kathrin Groß-Striffler: Licht

A doctor has separated from his wife because she wanted to have a child with him - irresponsible, in his opinion, in a world that is doomed due to advanced climate change. The protagonist lives in an agonizing inner dependency on his mother, which he can only overcome in the course of the story by finding the child within himself and allowing himself to become a father. Because children bring light and hope as well as the obligation to show them the way in life.
In her new novel "Light", Kathrin Groß-Striffler explores the question of what the impending decline of everything earthly as a result of climate change has to do with a man's coming of age. And the overriding question is: can we still have children today with a clear conscience?

Moderator: André Schinkel

In cooperation with the Literarische Gesellschaft Thüringen

Kathrin Groß-Striffler, born in 1955 in Würzburg, lives in Jena and has been a freelance writer since 1998. She has been awarded the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Marburg Literature Prize for her prose. In 2022, she received the Walter Dexel Scholarship from the city of Jena. Mitteldeutscher Verlag most recently published her short story collection "Cleopatra & Fleischsalat" (2022).