Lesung: Stefanie Sargnagel - Iowa. Ein Ausflug nach Amerika

In the organizer's words:

In 2022, Stefanie Sargnagel reluctantly swaps her comfortable Viennese sofa for a plane ticket to the USA. She is to teach creative writing at a college in the middle of nowhere in Iowa. In the small town of Grinnell with its 8,000 inhabitants, there is nothing but endless cornfields. Along for the ride is music legend Christiane Rösinger, and together they set out to explore the nothingness. They find overweight, friendly locals, traditional gender roles, giant supermarkets, incredible sausages and a jar full of pickled turkey gizzards. A first-class travelogue with corrective footnotes by Christiane Rösinger.

Stefanie Sargnagel studied painting in the class led by Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, but spent more time at her day job in a call center. She has been a freelance writer since 2016 - and has been spending more time with her tax consultant ever since. She received the BKSBank Audience Award in the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize competition. Her two books Statusmeldungen and Dicht were bestsellers.

The reading will take place as part of the Literary Weeks 2025. Tickets can be purchased directly from the Volkshochschule Bremerhaven.

Venue:
Bremerhaven
Forum of the Chamber of Employees
Barkhausenstr. 16
27568 Bremerhaven