Wild wuchern

Reading and discussion in the Secondo series with Katharina Köller

Moderator: Caroline Grafe | Marie runs up a mountain in panic. Fleeing from a world in which everything is out of kilter, she seeks refuge with her cousin Johanna. With Johanna, of all people, who has been living like a hermit on a remote Tyrolean mountain pasture for years. Marie and Johanna couldn't be more different: Marie, the sharp-tongued Viennese, a creature of luxury from a world of luxury, at once spoiled and despised by her husband - and Johanna, who seems to have lost her tongue and left society behind when she grew up. Up there, an unusual trial of strength begins for the two women, a struggle for their self-image, but also for a common path. In her poetic and humorous novel, a parable and pulsating critique of civilization in one, Katharina Köller celebrates two headstrong women and their departure into a new life.