The author Regina Scheer (born 1950 in Berlin) received the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her novel "Bitter Wells" about the socialist and Jewish woman Hertha Gordon-Walther. At the Long Book Night, she will read from her previous book, the Berlin novel "God Lives in Wedding," published in 2019.
It is about a house on Utrechter Straße in Wedding, in front of which the Hitler Youth member Walter Wagnitz was murdered in 1933, allegedly by communists. There is still an old resident who remembers the truth that was never spoken about. In the present, the more than 100-year-old house is attracting investors' interest; in order to evict the long-standing tenants, Roma from Romania, who came to Germany full of hope and illusions, are being placed in the empty apartments.
Regina Scheer tells of these people's struggle for existence, of their hardship and their vitality, in various storylines that touch on one another, without the protagonists always being aware of it.
The reading will take place in the historic Fontane Pharmacy in Bethanien – a literary place: Here the writer Theodor Fontane found refuge as a pharmacist in the turbulent revolutionary year of 1848 and was able to ideally combine his work with his literary creations.
(IN GERMAN)
Dates
May 2025
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