Hasenprosa

Reading and discussion
Moderation: Torsten Hoffmann and students

In 2017, as a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude and based on her poetry collection "Halb Taube halb Pfau", she developed a beguilingly beautiful exhibition for the Literaturhaus Stuttgart; she then brought her book "Luna Luna" to the Poetry Night in 2019, and now Maren Kames is coming to the Literaturhaus again with her "Hasenprosa": "If that's all, I'm moving out!" shouts one of them and sets off in her mile boots, her travel socks. On the back seat: a rabbit. It's a journey across time, through the ages and out into the pitch black of space. Maren Kames' "bunny prose" is mercurial, close to the heart, full of "punk, punk, punk" and tenderness. The finely spun stands alongside precisely captured perceptions of the world. We hear Glenn Gould and Billie Eilish, see Lionel Messi dribbling through the universe and abseil down fixed stars with the rabbit. Maren Kames, born in Überlingen on Lake Constance in 1984, is a freelance author and translator living in Berlin. Her books have won several awards, "Luna Luna" was adapted for the stage by Schauspiel Leipzig and "Hasenprosa" was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2024.

The event will be moderated by Torsten Hoffmann together with students who will read and discuss the German Book Prize shortlist in a seminar at the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart.