Rebellierende Körper, schreibende Töchter

Space days. Literature and participation
Reading and discussion with Jegana Dschabbarowa and Oliwia Hälterlein, moderated by Lena Gorelik
The Azerbaijani community living in Russia is strictly conservative. Even as a child, the narrator finds it difficult to fit into the patriarchal Muslim society. A neurological disorder then forces and frees her from her role as a marriageable daughter. It is the controlled and rebellious female body that Jegana Dschabbarowa talks about in her debut "The hands of the women in my family were not meant for writing" (dt. Maria Rajer), about her path to freedom through writing. Oliwia Hälterlein, on the other hand, sets her debut "We Daughters" in the context of a chronic ovarian disease in order to reflect on motherhood and being a daughter in the conflicting social expectations of three generations of women between Poland and Germany. Hälterlein also creates a bond between body and language, origin and future and the women of a family. Jegana Dschabbarowa, born in 1992 into an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg/Russia, is a poet, essayist and academic who now lives in Hamburg. Oliwia Hälterlein, born in 1986 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, is an author, dramaturge, presenter and lecturer and lives in Freiburg.

With the support of the Innovation Fund of the State of Baden- Württemberg and in cooperation with the German-Polish Society Stuttgart