DREI OSTDEUTSCHE FRAUEN BETRINKEN SICH UND GRÜNDEN DEN IDEALEN STAAT
Talking about East and West Germany is important: After Dirk Oschmann and Katja Hoyer, it’s time for the next round. GDR, times of upheaval, FRG: How can we all live better together? No one would want to miss these nights of storytelling, laughing, and discussing. Three friends, a kitchen table, the night outside the windows: Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, and Wenke Seemann talk. About themselves as “East women,” whatever that label means, about the happiness of crooked life paths, about the present with its constantly encroaching past.
On this evening, there will be drinking, laughing, and wrestling with fragments of memories and contradictions, about the complexity of influences and ideals that have become foreign over the years. In Buddhism, there are spirits that are born from carelessly discarded things – “what would the spirit of things from the GDR look like?” the three ask. Their book is as witty and heartfelt about remembering and reinventing oneself as any great societal discussion deserves.
Annett Gröschner, born in 1964 in Magdeburg, has lived in Berlin since 1983 and is a writer and journalist. In 2021, she received the Grand Art Prize Berlin – Fontane Prize and the Klopstock Prize of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Peggy Mädler, born in 1976 in Dresden, has lived in Berlin since 1994 and is an author and dramaturg. For her second novel, Wohin wir gehen, she received the Fontane Literature Prize from the Fontanestadt Neuruppin and the state of Brandenburg in 2019.
Wenke Seemann, born in 1978 in Rostock, has lived in Berlin since 2000 and is a freelance artist and social scientist. Her works have been shown in, among others, the Kunsthalle Rostock, the Albertinum Dresden, and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann
Duration: approx. 80 minutes
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