Möchte die Witze angesprochen werden, platziert sie auf dem Grab die Giesskanne mit dem Ausguss nach vorne. Lesung mit dem Beststeller-Autor Saša Stanišić

In the organizer's words:

What if you hadn't made this one decision, but that other one? What if you had defied expectations?

And then there is still the fear of having been a coward, of having hesitated too long and missed out on something, a better self, greater happiness, funnier pets and partners.

Saša Stanišić takes us to places where this is suddenly possible: to take the more difficult path, to make an unusual choice or to tell a good lie.

Like the cleaner who decides to finally take life into her own hands with a goat hair brush in her hand. Just like the lawyer who is prepared to cheat in order to finally win against his eight-year-old son in Memory. And like the German-Bosnian writer who travels to Heligoland for the first time, only to realize that he has already been to Heligoland once before.

It would be best if you could experience a life on a trial basis before you actually live it.

Saša Stanišić (*1978 in Višegrad) has lived in Germany since 1992. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have received many awards. Saša Stanišić lives and works in Hamburg. He is a soccer coach for an F-youth team there.

In cooperation with the Gießkannenmuseum and the Giessen Center for Eastern Europe at Justus Liebig University Giessen