Landgang

Readings and talks

Joachim Zelter, Claire Beyer, Ulrich Rüdenauer, Doris Vogel and Daniel Gräfe
Moderated by: Beatrice Fassbender and Carolin Callies

16.00 - 16.45 Joachim Zelter
16.45 - 17.30 Claire Beyer

18.00 - 18.45 Ulrich Rüdenauer
19.00 - 19.45 Doris Vogel
20.00 - 20.45 Daniel Gräfe

During the Stuttgart Book Weeks, the Literaturhaus presents five shore excursions into new texts, five invitations to literary freedom of movement - and five authors from the region!
16:00: "Staffellauf" is the title of the new novel by Tübingen writer Joachim Zelter. How did we become who we are? Joachim Zelter's autoficional novel describes life paths, detours and emergency exits. It tells of marriage proposals, flights of fancy, defeats, life lies and leaps in life. An attempt at a life or relay race. Zelter, born in Freiburg in 1962,
taught literature in Tübingen and Yale. He has been a freelance writer since 1997 and lives in Tübingen.
16:45: In Claire Beyer's new novel "Rain", we meet Elisabeth, who turns her back on her life as an insurance clerk after accidentally finding two bags of money and losing her home. But the past interrupts her idyllic life: the owners of the bags are hot on her heels. The novel tells the story of Elisabeth's surreal escape into a new life. Claire Beyer, born in 1947, lives in Markgröningen near Ludwigsburg.
18:00: A child grows up. Where the mother is and where the father is, the question runs as a mystery through this bitterly beautiful story of a childhood in southern Germany. The war has not been over for long, the birds are singing, the fruit trees are blossoming.
The stages of a life on the sidelines in Ulrich Rüdenauer's debut novel "Abseits" seem almost archaic. Ulrich Rüdenauer, born in 1971, works as a journalist, author, director and cultural organizer and lives in Berlin and Bad Mergentheim.
19:00: With her poetry collection "Dieses Buch gehört dem König 2.0", Doris Vogel opens up "surprising insights into a phenomenon of pop culture that continues to fascinate to this day: Elvis Presley. This book makes you want to become a royalist," says literary critic Denis Scheck. Doris Vogel, born in 1988, grew up in Aulendorf in Upper Swabia, lives and works as an art teacher, painter and poet in Eislingen/Fils.
20:00: Daniel Gräfe, born in 1971 in Biberach, worked as a culture and business editor and is a reporter for the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "Wir waren Kometen" is his debut novel, which tells a touching and poetic story of the longing for a different life, of freedom, oppression and unequal origins - in the midst of it all, a couple who take each other on and fight for each other.