Wednesday, 1/15/2025
at 7:30 PM


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Reading and Conversation
Moderation: Torsten Hoffmann and students

In 2017, as a scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude and based on her poetry collection “Halb Taube halb Pfau,” she developed a stunning exhibition for the Literaturhaus Stuttgart; her book “Luna Luna” she brought to the poetry night in 2019, and now Maren Kames returns with her “Hasenprosa” to the Literaturhaus: “If that’s all there is, I’m out!” one calls out, making off in her mile-high boots and travel socks. In the back seat: a hare. It goes across time, the ages, and out into the pitch-black cosmos. Maren Kames’ “Hasenprosa” is quicksilver, heart-close, full of “Punk, Punk, Punk” and tenderness. Finely spun pieces stand next to precisely captured perceptions of the world. We hear Glenn Gould and Billie Eilish, see Lionel Messi dribbling through the universe and rappel down with the hare from fixed stars. Maren Kames, born in 1984 in Überlingen by Lake Constance, lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin. Her books have received multiple awards, “Luna Luna” was adapted for the stage by Schauspiel Leipzig, and “Hasenprosa” was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2024.

The event is moderated by Torsten Hoffmann together with students who read and discuss the shortlist of the German Book Prize in the seminar of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart.

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