Reading with Heinrich and Kuratele at the Literature House Mattersburg

On Wednesday, April 22, the Literature House Mattersburg invites you to a joint reading by Clara Heinrich and Sarah Kuratle. The Burgenland native Clara Heinrich explores the practice of care in all its diversity in "Pusztagold." At the center is the return of a protagonist who comes back to the village with her seriously ill partner A. There, she dedicates herself to agriculture, plants trees in the fallow land, and reflects on what it means to take responsibility - for another person, for seeds, for the earth. The book shows how care work expands from the personal level to the landscape and how both can be inextricably intertwined. The setting of Sarah Kuratle's novel "Chimera" is a fictional island where a community fights for the preservation of biodiversity. In hanging gardens and through drawings, they try to preserve life while not losing themselves. Through loose scenes and in poetic language, Kuratle paints a story that invites reflection on whether care also involves leaving the boundaries between humanity and nature, between identity and trauma, open. Admission: Free donation. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to register at lisa.schwarz@literaturhausmattersburg.at.