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Somewhere in Brandenburg: In a house surrounded by forest on the lake, Goldberg fulfills his long-delayed promise to write the story of Miléna Balogh. A woman torn between creative work and the crippling exhaustion of her day job in Neukölln in the noughties. At the same time, he observes the investigations of a young police officer: an unknown person is draping dead foxes in the nearby undergrowth.



Goldberg encounters Mitić, a butterfly collector who plants old pear trees; an eco-poet who considers her poetry unimportant in the face of the destruction of nature; the local veterinarian, hunter, and amateur historian, who declares hunting to be a fair, equal fight in a fairytale forest hut; and—a ghost.

Since childhood, Wolfgang Scherreiks has been reading his way through world literature and soon began writing his own short stories and novels. Initially for his desk drawer. After occasional contributions to literary magazines (including the TORSO Literature Prize 2010), travel essays, a journalism scholarship from Post AG in 2012, and most recently a nature writing workshop from the Kunst & Natur x Matthes & Seitz Foundation in 2021, he wrote the Goldberg novel in a lakeside house in the Uckermark region, equipped with the Neustart Kultur scholarship. Born in Bremen, the writer has lived in his adopted home of Berlin-Schöneberg since 1987.


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Participating artists
Wolfgang Scherreiks
Dates
March 2026
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