A few months before the Berlin Wall was built, in April 1961, Gesine Cresspahl, a single mother, emigrated from Mecklenburg to New York with her young daughter Marie and made a life for herself in her new home. But in the historic period of 1967–68, everything suddenly changes and events come thick and fast: the US Air Force attacks Vietnam, Martin Luther King is shot dead, there are violent clashes in black neighbourhoods, and students rebel in the US and across the Western world.
Please note: The event will be held in German.
The novel tells of all this. And at the same time, it recounts how Gesine Cresspahl, day after day for a whole year, tells her now ten-year-old daughter stories about her own family history in the fictional small town of Jerichow in Mecklenburg: of the Weimar Republic and the Nazis, of the Soviet occupation zone and the early years of the GDR. All this is repeatedly interrupted by an omnipresent dramatic present. With daily news from the New York Times: the here and now in the USA and around the world.
PERFORMERS
Caren Miosga reading
Charly Hübner reading
Ninon Gloger piano
