Reading at the Reinickendorf Museum
Author Florentine Anders tells the fascinating story of her charismatic grandfather, East German architect Hermann Henselmann. At the same time, she describes her extended family, especially two women—Isi and Isa—and their emancipation from their overbearing husband and father.
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The novel also paints a broad picture of architectural and contemporary history in divided Berlin.
(in German)
Florentine Anders, born in Berlin in 1968, is the granddaughter of the Henselmanns. She worked as a freelance journalist in France and Germany, wrote for various newspapers, and is now an editor at Studio ZX, a Zeit Verlag company. She has been a board member of the Hermann Henselmann Foundation since 2022.
Welcome: Petra Lölsberg, Humboldt Library.
Moderator: Claudia Wasow-Kania, Reinickendorf Museum
- A collaboration between the Reinickendorf Museum and the Reinickendorf City Library as part of “Bühnentausch” 2025.
Dates
September 2025
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