Liefern

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Reading and conversation with Tomer Gardi
Moderator: Katharina Borchardt
Whether in Delhi, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Istanbul or Stuttgart - we see them every day: food delivery men. Tomer Gardi's stories become a literary journey around the world in six episodes, celebrating the art of storytelling and the longing for connection. Filmon, who fled from Eritrea to Tel Aviv, works as a delivery man to earn enough money to follow his wife and daughter to Berlin. He does not have a work permit and travels under a false name. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter learn German from Nina at the education center, who travels to Delhi for an exchange semester, where she falls in love with the Argentinian Ramón. The narrator travels to Istanbul to squander the prize money after a literary prize scam. And in Buenos Aires, Ramón's mother has to come to terms with her son's absence. Tomer Gardi, born in 1974 in Kibbutz Dan in the Galilee, is a writer living in Berlin. His novel "Broken German" was published in 2016. He received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2022 for his novel "Eine runde Sache". "Liefern" was written in collaboration with literary translator Anne Birkenhauer, who translated the Mimesis section from Hebrew.

In collaboration with Schauspiel Stuttgart and SWR Kultur, broadcast date: 27.3.