Der Rosengarten. Rosa, der Krieg und das Niemandsland

Reading and talk
Kathrin Steinberger

Autumn 1916 - it feels like the whole world is at war. Rosa comes to live as a "boarder" with an old woman whose life is only marginally better. But at least there is enough to eat - which puts Rosa in a moral dilemma. After all, in these times of scarcity, food should be distributed fairly among the population. But nobody seems to care what the law is if you only have enough money. Rosa cannot betray the old woman, however, because there is no way she wants to go back to the orphanage. So she finds her own ways to ease her conscience. And she finds a spiritual refuge - the old neighboring and now abandoned inn, the "Rose Garden". Here she finds peace and one day also Simon, an injured deserter from the Isonzo front: a historically adept and unsparingly told novel about a young, strong woman on her way to self-determination during the First World War.
Kathrin Steinberger has been publishing children's books since 2003, for which she has twice been awarded the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize and the Kranichstein Youth Literature Scholarship. The Rose Garden received the Children's and Youth Book Prize of the City of Vienna.
With the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
from 14 years