STEFAN SCHWARZ - TO THE CORE
An evening full of humor, honesty and depth of life: In "Bis ins Mark", Schwarz tells of his cancer diagnosis - touching, self-ironic and with a lot of heart. Not a story of suffering, but a courageous, cheerful search for clarity, meaning and closeness.
Reading and talk with Petra Weise
Petra Weise reads from her biography "Half a Life". She talks about her life in the GDR, a failed escape attempt and her imprisonment in Hoheneck. A personal story about courage, family and political repression.
Reading and talk with Helmut Ortner
Helmut Ortner presents his book "Gnadenlos Deutsch". The focus is on dealing with the Nazi past, questions of remembrance culture and a plea against trivialization and for a conscious confrontation with history.
Reading and talk with Iris Wolff
Author Iris Wolff reads from her novel about a Banat family. The story spans an arc from the interwar period to communist Romania and the GDR to today's southern Germany - a poetic novel about loss and new beginnings.
READING WITH KRISTINA VOM DORF
Kristina vom Dorf reads from "Made in Saxony" with wit, charm and a lot of heart. Anecdotes from village life, experiences from abroad and affectionate dialect moments paint a vivid picture of Saxon identity - entertaining, honest and surprisingly close.
Stadtbibliothek Flöha09557 Flöha
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17.04.2618:30 clock
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The poet, writer, essayist and translator Yuri Andrukhovych
Yuri Andrukhovych, an important Ukrainian writer and winner of the International Stefan Heym Prize 2026, has left his mark on literature with experimental, satirical works and remains true to complexity and grotesqueness in his novels.
Hartmannfabrik09111 Chemnitz
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19.04.26 15:00 - 17:00 clock
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Dana von Suffrin reads from her new novel Toxibaby
With sharp wit, Dana von Suffrin tells the story of a love that wants everything and fails. The close relationship between the little heart and the toxibaby turns into a struggle for dependence, self-assertion and unfulfilled expectations - a portrait of a generation.
Stadtbibliothek im Tietz09111 Chemnitz
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21.04.26 17:00 - 19:00 clock
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Toxibaby - Reading
The writer Dana von Suffrin reads from her work about an intense relationship between longing, realization and failure. With wit and narrative acuity, she paints a picture of modern relationship worlds. Moderation: Rebecca Maria Salentin.
Stefan-Heym-Forum09111 Chemnitz
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21.04.2619:00 clock
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Reading: The situation
Mesut Bayraktar reads from his short story collection "Die Lage" and tells the stories of people who rarely appear in literature. Moderated by Marten Henning.
The key would still fit
In her autobiographical book, Irina Scherbakowa describes life and political awakening in post-Soviet Russia. Personal memories are combined with contemporary history, resistance and the fight against dictatorship and oblivion.
Hartmannfabrik09111 Chemnitz
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27.04.26 16:00 - 17:30 clock