Alte Frauen

Reading and discussion
Wednesday 17.12. 19.30
Old women
Verena Lueken
Moderator: Lena Gorelik
Wise, bold and free - that is old age. And women like Vivian Gornick, Jane Campbell, Carmen Herrera, Lucinda Childs and Ulrike Edschmid demonstrate this. Some have reinvented themselves, others have kept going and then achieved their international breakthrough as artists and writers in old age. They are courageous, demand nothing, but take what they need. A book about freedom in old age beyond social clichés. "Actually, I'm an old woman," said a good friend of Verena Lueken's when they first met. Daniel was in his mid-thirties, loved men - and women when they were no longer so young. Apart from their role as friendly grandmothers, old women are by no means always and everywhere well regarded in our society. The older the women are, the more they disappear from the public eye. And only reappear when they are approaching a hundred or making a career as eccentrics on TikTok. What old women really are: Feminists, lovers, fighters, non-conformists, often late "discoverers". Verena Lueken traces inspiring lifestyles in all their passion and vitality. Verena Lueken, a long-time author and critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has received several awards for her work.

Admission: 14,-/12,-/7,- €
Livestream: 7,- €