Told Life
Reading & Conversation

Judith Kuckart is a dancer, choreographer, director, and writer. In her new novel, she tells her biography and illuminates an entire generation: „On June 17, the Day of German Unity, I was born. I remained the only child. On June 2, 1967, I sat in the children's ballet costume in front of the news. Benno Ohnesorg had been shot. I hit my father on the knee during the report: Daddy, when I grow up, I will shoot you too. In 1977, my grandmother, a conveyor belt worker in a factory for baby bathtubs made of plastic, gave me 1,000 DM for my high school graduation. In 1989, I stood on stage for the last time as a dancer at the Duisburg Opera. An important and shy publisher sat in the audience and said: You could also write a novel, Judith. On June 17, 2024, the title for my new novel will be set. And I know, from now on I have another twenty grand summers ahead of me – or?“

The writer reads from her novel and talks with Reinar Ortmann, who has been the lead dramaturge for drama at the Oldenburg State Theatre since the 2024/25 season.

Judith Kuckart, born in 1959 in Schwelm (Westphalia), lives as a writer and director in Berlin. Her most recent novels are No Storm, Just Weather (2019) and Café of the Invisible (2022). Judith Kuckart has received numerous literary awards and scholarships. In 2023, she was a Landgang scholarship holder at the Oldenburg Literature House.