Mirrianne Mahn: Issa - reading and conversation

Issa doesn't actually want to go on this trip. Pregnant, she is on a plane to Douala, at her mother's insistence, to follow the path of rituals in Cameroon, the land of her childhood, under the eagle eyes of her grandmothers and to get in touch with her ancestors. In her debut novel "Issa" (Rowohlt, 2024), Mirrianne Mahn artfully interweaves the life stories of women from five generations between Germany and Cameroon, who are linked by colonial exploitation and trauma, but also by the pursuit of female self-empowerment.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT), Weertje Willms (German Seminar, University campus Freiburg) and students will be in conversation with the author.
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Photo: © Katharina Dubno

Organized by the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) and the German Seminar of the University of Freiburg in cooperation with Dr. Richard Tsogang Fossi (University Dschang/Cameroon), the Literaturhaus Freiburg and the bookshop and café jos fritz, sponsored by the City of Freiburg and the Burckhardt Foundation of the University of Freiburg.

Date: 14.5.2025, 19:30
Venue: jos fritz Café, Wilhelmstraße 15
Admission: 11/7 euros (students and pupils: free admission)
Tickets: available from the jos fritz bookshop in advance (from 23.4.2025) and at the box office. Pupils and students who would like a free ticket must collect them in advance from the bookshop (the number of free tickets is limited).

Reading and talk
Out of the house