YANNIC HAN BIAO FEDERER »FÜR IMMER SEH ICH DICH WIEDER«

Moderator: Anne Burgmer

Charlotte and Yannic are expecting a child. Between prenatal screenings, project completions and parental allowance calculators, they are settling into a new life as a family. But then disaster strikes: their son, Gustav Tian Ming, dies. A moment ago they were googling changing tables and buying breastfeeding pillows, and suddenly they have to choose a coffin and buy a grave. Everything feels wrong, crazy and contrived, but it's really happening. Shocked relatives and friends arrive or take part from afar, carrying offering bowls to the temple. And while Charlotte and he struggle with a bureaucracy that barely knows how to deal with stillborn children, Yannic begins to write down what is happening around him. It is an attempt to understand what has happened to them, to find a language for the grief and pain, but also for the warmth and love hidden within it.

Yannic Han Biao Federer tells the story of the loss of his son, of parting and care work, of parenthood and love with precision and urgency. "Forever I'll see you again" is a document of grief - and the healing power of storytelling.

Yannic Han Biao Federer lives and works as a freelance author in Cologne. He writes novels and short stories, essays and reviews for Deutschlandfunk, WDR and SWR, among others. He is a member of PEN Berlin and the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. He has received numerous prizes and scholarships, most recently the Bayern 2-Wortspiele-Literaturpreis and the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 2022.

The event takes place as part of the Bonn Theater Night 2025.
Also in the house:

• from 7 p.m.: Bonn reads a book - final voting
• 7 p.m.: VHS Bonn interactive: Pillars of democracy
• 9 pm: Literature quiz

You can find more information about the program on the Bonn Theatre Night website

In cooperation with the Bonn City Library and the Bonn Adult Education Center