Anna Prizkau: Women in the Sanatorium

Anna didn't want to anymore. And now she is in a sanatorium. There, she meets Elif, who invents a new fairy tale every day. She encounters Marija, who constantly gives monologues about her deceased mother. She meets the soldier Katharina, who drinks red wine with vodka every night. And then there's the flamingo from the spa park, to whom Anna tells her story of emigration. Above all, she talks daily with her bird about love. Because love exists everywhere, even in such a peculiar place as a clinic. Anna Prizkau elegantly tells the stories of people searching for happiness, without really wanting to find it. About the strangers. About the lost. About roles and expectations. And always about the power of storytelling. The event will be moderated by Dr. Anton Knittel, director of the literature house. Anna Prizkau, born in Moscow in 1986, came to Germany with her family in the 1990s. She studied in Hamburg and Berlin and worked for many years as an editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. In 2020, her collection of stories "Almost a New Life" was published, which was awarded the Literature Prize of the State Capital Hanover. In 2021, she read at the Bachmann Prize. Anna Prizkau lives in Berlin.