Maria Bidian liest aus ihrem Roman »Das Pfauengemälde«

In the organizer's words:

Two years after the sudden death of her father, Ana travels by train to post-communist Romania in the summer, where her family is finally to receive back their expropriated property after lengthy disputes with the authorities. While the relatives are only interested in the former central family home, Ana's main aim is to find the peacock painting, a family heirloom that her father has often told her about. In Romania, now liberated from the communist system, Ana is confronted with her family's past and present. The backdrop to the story is mainly familiar villages in multicultural Transylvania.

The reading will conclude with a discussion and a snack.

A joint event of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation and the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany e. V. Düsseldorf District Group