Lucie Rico: The Ballad of the Vacuum-Packed Chicken - Bilingual reading and conversation with Milena Adam

"Senkel was a unique, first-class chicken and captivated us with his intelligence and mischievousness. His heart may have stopped beating, but he will live on in ours."

Hannah has been a vegetarian since she was a teenager. She lives in the city and has little connection to the village life of her childhood. When her mother dies, she returns to her mother's chicken farm - temporarily, she thinks. But country life, in all its beauty and horror, takes hold of her, and Hannah soon develops a special relationship with the animals: She slaughters and vacuum packs them, but says goodbye to each chicken with its own biography enclosed in the packaging. This gesture gives rise to a marketing project that takes on unimagined proportions ... The screenwriter, director and author, born in 1988, talks about this crazy novel (Matthes & Seitz, 2024) between farm idyll and meat counter with her translator Milena Adam.
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Photo: © Wiktoria Bosc

Co-organizer: Centre Culturel Français and Frankreich-Zentrum der University campus Freiburg

Date: 9.4.2025, 7 pm
Venue: Centre Culturel Français, Münsterplatz 11
Admission: 11/7 euros

Reading and discussion
Outside the house