Lesung mit Kathrin Bach

In the organizer's words:

Kathrin Bach reads from her novel "Lebensversicherung", nominated for the German Book Prize 2025.

Provincial West Germany in the 90s: Prefabricated houses on one side of the village, traditional farms on the other. A sports field, a pub, a bakery, a bus loop. And: an insurance office. The first-person narrator is born into a merchant's family. Her parents continue what her grandfathers brought to the up-and-coming villages after the war: selling insurance. With the business comes modest prosperity - but also a fear that hovers over everything. Because the
The next catastrophe is always just a phone call away.
In Kathrin Bach's prose debut, memories, images and lists come together to form a tragicomic family story. It tells of the very German longing for security - and the experience that you can't buy your way out of risks.
And of a protagonist who confronts her fears in order to reassure herself of her vitality through writing.

Price information:

Reduced € 7.00, Reduced II € 3.50