Mirna Funk: Balagan

In the organizer's words:

A woman fights for her heritage - and that of her Jewish family

Fast-paced and highly topical, a novel from Berlin to Tel Aviv: Mirna Funk, one of Germany's most courageous and unconventional Jewish voices, tells of right and wrong in the art world, of greed and envy in families and of a young woman's difficult search for stability in a world that is falling apart at the seams.

"Mirna Funk's characters carry a beautiful melancholy that touches you, but at the same time you want to carry it inside you."
Caroline Wahl

Old stuff, at best a memento - that's all Amira expects when she pushes open the door to her deceased grandfather's storage room in Berlin-Moabit. But then she finds herself standing in front of her Jewish family's art collection, which she thought had been lost since the Second World War. "WTF!", Amira thinks and starts an Insta story. And now? Should Amira donate the artworks to a museum or sell them to an oligarch? Can she just keep them? And can everyone who wants to talk her into it please shut up! When doubts arise as to whether the collection was returned to her grandfather legally, Amira suddenly has to justify herself. A breathlessly narrated, razor-sharp novel about a young woman who has to find her way through the chaos (Hebrew 'balagan') that German Jewish history in general and her family in particular have left her.

"Bam!"
Ronya Othmann