Workshop with Manja Präkels

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Gefühle, Fakten und Fiktionen in der komplizierten Annäherung an einen realen Fall
 

Manja Präkels spricht anhand ihres gleichnamigen Essays mit uns über die Entstehungsgeschichte ihres Romans "Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß", die autobiografischen Hintergründe und die unterschiedliche Reaktionen auf den Text seit seinem Erscheinen. In der intensiven Rezeption durch Zeitzeuginnen, Leserinnen und Leser verschiedener Generationen in Ost- und Westdeutschland und innerhalb literarischer Debatten treten gesamtgesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien deutlich zutage.

 

About the author:

Manja Präkels was a local reporter in Brandenburg in the 90s and today works as a freelance writer, musician and singer in Berlin. Her autobiographical novel “When I ate schnapps cherries with Hitler” which was published in 2017 describes the last years of the GDR as well as the social upheavals and right-wing violence in the years of reunification in a small town in Brandenburg. She was awarded with the Youth Literature Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize in 2018 for the novel. “World in Echo or was that a plastic bag?” was published in 2022 - a collection of essays from her long-term observations of East German living environments in transition. As part of the Robert Bosch Foundation's Weltenschreiber program, she conducted teacher training and writing workshops with school classes in Germany.