MUTTERNICHTS. READING AND DISCUSSION WITH CHRISTINE VESCOLI

»Ihr ‚Mutternichts‘ ist ganz und gar einzigartig. Oft verstörend, klagend, anklagend wird ihre Sicht auf die Mutter zu großer Literatur. Es ist wunderbar, eigenwillig, bohrend und schweifend zugleich – und das Beste daran ist: dass es so total anders ist als das, was im Moment grad geschrieben wird. Großartig, überraschend, traurig und mutig, auf jeder Seite voller Einblicke – und sehr schön.« Michael Krüger (Schriftsteller, Verleger und Übersetzer)
 

Throughout her life, nothingness was behind her mother, all-encompassing and yet never tangible. After her mother's death, the daughter wonders whether she can now finally see what her mother had hidden behind her and kept silent about. She has only a few stories, whispered memories, a few photos, and newspaper clippings to trace a childhood full of hardship and coldness on a strange farm in a side valley in South Tyrol. So who was she? The narrator approaches her mother's life step by step, constantly questioning whether it could have been that way or whether she is using her language to create a preformed reality that does not correspond to her mother's truth. “Mutternichts” is a powerful and poetic debut. In it, Christine Vescoli takes a fresh look at something as old-fashioned as it is contemporary: the love relationship between mother and daughter.

The conversation with the author will be led by Katrin Hillgruber, freelance journalist and literary critic in Munich.

A joint event organized by the Dr. Friedrich Teßmann Provincial Library and the South Tyrolean Artists' Association.