Literary Salon in the Community Building - Florian Klenk

Elfriede Blauensteiner, known as the "black widow," was arrested in early 1996 and later convicted of multiple murders of care recipients and partners. Here she speaks in a documentary self-recording. What you read here is not a novel, not a crime story, but a written life. A statement is made here. From protocols, expert opinions, and testimonies, a monologue emerges that forces us to recalibrate our notions of guilt, justice, and empathy. Of course, it is about guilt, but not in the legal sense. Yes, this woman has murdered people. But anyone who knows at the age of seven that their own mother longs for the child's death more than for their recovery does not develop a sense of morality. There are books that cannot be put down. Not because they are entertaining, but precisely because they are hardly bearable. "Excuses" is such a book. Featuring: Florian Klenk and Petra Morzé Moderation: Barbara Stöckl Live music: Ernst Molden