Ursula Krechel

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Literature

In her highly political novel, Ursula Krechel writes a cultural history of all women - about symbiotic motherhood, existentially endangered women and political power.

For Eva Patarak's son, having to speak to his mother is a crime against the state. For Eva, on the other hand, it is a crime that her son and she are apparently being spied on. What is the aim of Latin teacher Silke Aschauer's surveillance? Is she writing a novel? But Silke is far from pulling all the strings, because her own body has started a rebellion against her, forcing her into the role of patient.

In their helplessness, both women turn to the Minister of Justice - unaware of the danger they are putting her in.

"I was interested in her normality," says the author about Eva Patarak (BR24). "I was interested in the fact that she is so convinced of her own shyness, of her own shortcomings. And these flaws in turn make it interesting to write about her. She is strained. She naturally wants the best for her son too." Her minister's main topic is the rule of law, says Krechel. "And the rule of law is something we are seeing at the moment that needs to be defended - I think for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany in such a fierce way."

Ursula Krechel, born in 1947, was a theater dramaturge. She has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and Washington University in St. Louis, among others, and writes poetry, narrative prose, novels, essays, plays and radio plays.

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