Schwebende Lasten

Reading and talk
with Annett Gröschner
Moderation: Marie Schmidt

Annett Gröschner tells no less than an entire life with the story of the flower arranger and crane driver Hanna Krause. She experienced two revolutions, two dictatorships, an uprising, two world wars and two defeats, two democracies, the Kaiser and other leaders, good times and bad, gave birth to six children and was unable to bury two of them. Later, after her flower store was long gone, she had a good view of the relationships of the people ten meters below her from a crane in the hall of a heavy machinery factory in Magdeburg and died in time before she no longer understood the world. Until her death, Hanna Krause remained someone who took life as it came. Annett Gröschner's novel "Schwebende Lasten" tells the story of a century in a single life and, with Hanna, gives a face to those who too often remain invisible.
Gröschner, born in Magdeburg in 1964, has lived as a writer in Berlin since 1983. Her bestseller "Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat" (2024), co-written with Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann, was recently published by Hanser.