Paulina Czienskowski

In the organizer's words:

The moon is doing well

With the birth of her child, a young woman looks at the world differently. Words fade as love and fantasies of loss take over her. Only now does she realize how mute her mother and grandmother are in life. How they have neglected to tell their own stories. How questions about belonging and ruptures constantly seep in. She approaches the speechless riddles with a fumbling precision, sensually and relentlessly tracing their lives amidst the fog of their memories. After all, how can a child know where it is going if it doesn't know where it came from? In her new novel, Paulina Czienskowski shows in cyclical movements what it means to become an echo - three women, three mothers and a new life that reveals itself as if everything were lined with mirror foil.
Moderation: Mareike Köhler

- "Every child has a mother, every mother was once a child: Paulina Czienskowski turns these basic facts into tender, brutal, wide-awake poetry." Theresia Enzensberger
- "Thoughts, language like a newborn creature. Disarming, attractive, tactile. A different world, but you feel connected to the bone. Love for a text." Inga Machel
- "This is a book about a mother, and a book that fathers should read. It's a book by a daughter, a book about the body, shame, coming to strength and being weak. It is a book about being a child. It is a book in which someone finds language where otherwise there is only feeling." Saša Stanišić

Price information:

VVK 12 € plus fees B.O. 16 €.