Grit Lemke reads from “Children of Hoy: Freedom, Happiness and Terror”

In her documentary novel, Grit Lemke interweaves the voices of Hoy's children into a gripping oral history, giving voice to a generation for whom dream and trauma were closely intertwined. She compiles conversations with friends and family and recounts her own life as part of a proletarian bohemian community around Gerhard Gundermann, who met in a basement club at night and toiled by day. When neo-Nazis perpetrated the first pogrom of the post-war period after reunification, the cultural scene remained inactive. Afterward, nothing was the same.


Grit Lemke, born in Spremberg and raised in Hoyerswerda, works as a documentary filmmaker and author. Her film "Gundermann Revier" was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2020. Hans Fallada Prize 2024


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