Clara Umbach – Pizza Orlando

Reading and discussion at lit.space

Clara and Nina have known each other since they were teenagers, long before this story begins. When they meet again after many years as adult women, Nina is already suffering from the first symptoms of an incurable disease, Huntington's disease. The two fall in love and embark on a frenzied love affair. Despite the distance between their lives in Berlin and Hamburg, an intense closeness develops. Desire and vulnerability break through in their chat messages, the everyday is juxtaposed with the existential. While Nina struggles to find a future with Clara despite her limited lifespan, Clara, as a single mother, fights for self-determination in an everyday life of childcare, studies and paid work. How can this love be lived - given the limited time Nina and Clara have left?

Moderator: Laura Müller-Sixer