Heike Geißler

In the organizer's words:

Heike Geißler reads from her new novel "Michaela Kohlhaas".

In "Michaela Kohlhaas" (Suhrkamp), her grandiose rewriting of Kleist's novella, Heike Geißler puts the spotlight on a middle-aged deputy cemetery administrator who - let's call a spade a spade - is fed up with the system. But where her male namesake murdered and pillaged 500 years earlier, she uses language for her vendetta. Like a witch, Kohlhaas wanders through the country, ranting and raving and cursing.

The multi-award-winning author Heike Geißler has been exploring the effects of capitalism on the individual in her literature since her 2002 debut "Rosa". In "Saisonarbeit", she addresses her time as a temporary worker at the Amazon logistics center near Leipzig. She was last a guest at the Literaturhaus with "Arbeiten". "Michaela Kohlhaas" is her long-awaited novel, which aims to undermine conditions with gusto and thumbs its nose at the patriarchy.

Moderator: Katrin Schumacher

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