Satzwende: Lesung und Gespräch mit Isabel Bogdan

In the organizer's words:

Sentence turnaround: Reading and conversation with Isabel Bogdan

About the book:

The book title Wohnverwandtschaften is of course anything but coincidental: like Goethe, Isabel Bogdan's new novel about a shared flat in Hamburg develops a moving drama about four people of different ages who are fundamentally different and yet feel drawn to each other. When the oldest roommate Jörg falls ill with dementia, a responsible decision has to be made. Are they a purely functional flat share or a family of choice? Isabel Bogdan tells a stirring story about staying and going with wisdom and humor.

About the author

Isabel Bogdan was born in Cologne in 1968 and studied English and Japanese studies in Heidelberg and Tokyo. She is a well-known translator (of Jonathan Safran Foer, Jane Gardam and Nick Hornby, among others), blogger and author. Her first book "Sachen machen" was published by Rowohlt in 2012, followed by the bestselling novel "Der Pfau" in 2016 and "Laufen" in 2019. Both were also made into films. In 2006, she received the Hamburg Prize for Literary Translation and in 2011 the Prize for Literature. Together with Maximilian Buddenbohm, she was Blogger of the Year in 2014 for the interview project "Was machen die da?". Her novel "Wohnverwandtschaften" was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 2024. Isabel Bogdan lives in Hamburg.
"Isabel Bogdan tells a story that is both fun and thought-provoking. And which leaves us with the big question: How do we want to live ourselves?" (Die Zeit)

A reading series by the Literaturhaus, Literaturkontor and bremer shakespeare company. The 90-minute event will be moderated by Heike Müller from the Literaturhaus.

At SATZWENDE, Isabel Bogdan will read from her novel *Wohnverwandtschaftent** and present her column written for the digital literary magazine on the monthly focus #ZEINSAMKEIT.

Price information:

normal: 12 € reduced: 8 €