Lesung: "Jeder ist wer" von Josef Brustmann

In the organizer's words:

The author, musician and cabaret artist Josef Brustmann reads from his autobiographical story "Jeder ist wer" (Allitera, 2024).

In it, he tells of his unhappy grandfathers, of his father, who spent eight years in the war and as a prisoner of war, of his six living siblings and two who died too soon. And of how his family was expelled from their homeland and accidentally stranded in Bavaria. Brustmann grew up in poverty in Waldram near Wolfratshausen, which was formerly the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and a Jewish shtetl.

Josef Brustmann writes heartbreakingly and sensitively about grief and trauma, home and homelessness, as well as about the traces that displacement leaves behind in future generations and about forgetting those who are not affected by it. And last but not least, Brustmann talks about comfort in love, music and family.

Moderator: Dagmar Leupold

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