Sylvie Schenk liest aus "In Erwartung eines Glücks" mit musikalischer Begleitung

In the organizer's words:

Irène, a German-French author, is taken to hospital with a suspected stroke. Although it soon turns out that there is no acute danger, she has to spend some time in the hospital as a precaution - and begins to settle in. With an ironic and sarcastic tone, she describes her new everyday life between examinations and life in the hospital room. She thinks of her recently deceased husband, meets Ada, a young Muslim woman with whom she shares a room, and encounters a mysterious patient whom she calls "Frogman" and who reminds her of Houellebecq. Her conversations with him lead her to profound thoughts about writing, life and death.

Sylvie Schenk talks about all this with her unmistakable lightness of touch - hardly anyone masters this tone as well as she does. The reading will be accompanied musically by Heribert Leuchter on saxophone and will take place as part of Langlese Wuppertal 2025.

Sylvie Schenk was born in Chambéry, France, in 1944, studied in Lyon and has lived in Germany since 1966. Sylvie Schenk has published poetry in French and has been writing in German since 1992. She lives near Aachen and in La Roche-de-Rame, Hautes-Alpes. Her novels Schnell, dein Leben (2016), Eine gewöhnliche Familie (2018), Roman d'amour (2021) and Maman (2023) were published by Hanser.

An event as part of the Langlese Wuppertal 2025.