„Die Frau, die nachts zum Kiosk ging“

Who is this woman who follows a stranger into the night? Jocelyn spends five days and nights with him, unable to leave. She plunges into monstrous states of mind, encounters forces that reveal themselves to her in archetypal images and figures. She has to face them—as well as her biography, this man, and her sexuality. “She looked into his eyes, she heard a child crying, she was startled by something, she forgot it immediately.”


Lioba Happel lives in Lausanne, Berlin, and Brandenburg. She has published numerous works of poetry and fiction. She has received various awards, most recently the 2021 Alice Salomon Poetry Prize. In 2023, she received the Swiss Literature Prize for her book “Pommfritz aus der Hölle” (Pommfritz from Hell), which was also nominated for the Swiss Book Prize in the same year.


Signe Ibbeken, author and actress, has worked intensively with Lioba Happel's text as part of her editorial work. She will moderate the evening and interview the author about the writing process and the story behind the story.


(IN GERMAN)