Playboy

Reading & Talk
Constance Debré
Moderation: Annabelle Hirsch
Reading voice: Irene Baumann
After decades of marriage to her husband and raising their son, the main character in "Playboy" says goodbye to the supposed family idyll. And with every piece of furniture she leaves behind, every shirt she discards, she sheds her habits, behavioral patterns and heterosexual imprints layer by layer. She looks with new eyes at her upbringing in a prestigious French family and as the child of two drug addicts, at her profession as a criminal defense lawyer and her marriage to her ex-husband.
Constance Debré's directness, the ruthlessness and quiet irony of her literature are as impressive as they are irritating, and for this very reason they are deeply human. Through the breakneck decisions made by her characters, caught between fiction and reality, she shows us how fragile our life models often are and how important it is to live in the moment in order to arrive at the most important goal in life: yourself.

- Languages: German / French

With the kind support of the Institut français.