Musical reading | Maman, Sylvie Schenk

Listen to a story accompanied by music: French author Sylvie Schenk comes to Freiburg and presents her new book "Maman" at the CCF - with musical accompaniment by Heribert Leuchter.

About the book
A rapprochement with her own mother and a painful reckoning: Sylvie Schenk's mother was born in 1916 and her grandmother died in childbirth. She was supposedly a silk worker, just like her great-grandmother. But is that true? And what story is passed on to her descendants? As a child, Sylvie Schenk suffers from this ambiguity, and as a writer she is still characterized by great unease. With poetic precision, she traces the questions that her own family history leaves unanswered. "Maman" is both a daring venture and explosive literature. After "Schnell, dein Leben", the author has once again written a text full of beauty and temperament.

About the author
Sylvie Schenk was born in Chambéry, France, in 1944, studied in Lyon and has lived in Germany since 1966. Sylvie Schenk has published poetry in French and has been writing in German since 1992. She lives near Aachen and in La Roche-de-Rame, Hautes-Alpes. Her novels Schnell, dein Leben (2016), Eine gewöhnliche Familie (2018) and most recently Roman d'amour (2021) were published by Hanser.

Information about the musician Heribert Leuchter can be found here!

Friday, November 22nd | 7:00 pm
CCFF
Admission: € 9 | € 6
Language: D
In cooperation with: Frankreich Zentrum
As part of the theme series: (Invisible) Work / Travail (invisible)