Volha Hapeyeva "Samota. Die Einsamkeit wohnte im Zimmer gegenüber"

In the organizer's words:

The characters in Volha Hapeyeva's novel travel halfway around the globe, enter into relationships and explore the world of animals, people and volcanoes: at the beginning there is a piercing silence, but the bubbling has already begun. Maja's research into the eruption of a volcano comes to a standstill. At the same time, a congress on the "regulation of animal populations" is taking place in her hotel and sinister figures are cavorting around her. - In a second time level, Sebastian clashes with the sinister hunter Mészáros, and it's a matter of life and death. - And the slightly quirky and over-the-top Helga-Maria appears to be a mediator and wanderer between the times. How is all this connected? At the heart of Samota is empathy and the question of why so many people lack it or have lost it.

Volha Hapeyeva, born in Minsk, Belarus (1982), is a poet, author, translator, artist and doctor of linguistics. She has received numerous prizes and awards for her work, including the Wortmeldungen Literature Prize 2022 and the Rotahorn Prize 2021 (Austria). Volha Hapeyeva's poems have been translated into more than 15 languages. She is a frequent guest at international festivals. Volha Hapeyeva has also been writing in German since 2020 and lives as a nomad in Austria and Germany.