Stefanie Sargnagel liest aus: Iowa: Ein Ausflug nach Amerika

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Stefanie Sargnagel reads from: Iowa: A Trip to America
Literary Weeks 2025

Following the reading: Three questions for the author, posed by Lena Prötzel, Weserburg - Museum of Modern Art Bremen
In 2022, Stefanie Sargnagel reluctantly swaps her comfortable Viennese sofa for a plane ticket to the USA. In Iowa, she is to teach creative writing at a college in the middle of nowhere. 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.

"No thing is banal, no place remains boring when it has passed through the pen of Stefanie Sargnagel." Jana Felgenhauer, Stern, December 14, 2023

Stefanie Sargnagel, born in 1986, 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 BKS Bank Audience Award in the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize competition and her two books Statusmeldungen and Dicht were bestsellers. For her novel "Iowa", Stefanie Sargnagel has been awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 2025.

VA no.: 25F20104

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