When I ate brandy cherries with Hitler

In the anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Manja Präkels will read from her award-winning novel "Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß"

Time: Tuesday, October 29 at 7 p.m.
Location: Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences - Furtstraße 2 - Blue Box, Aula - Görlitz

About the book

Country life between lethargy and joie de vivre. Mimi and Oliver are neighbors and fishing buddies in a small town on the Havel. They play soccer together, take the pioneer oath and secretly get drunk on their parents' schnapps cherries at family parties. When the Wall comes down, their friendship also falls apart. Mimi sees herself as the last pioneer - Timur without a troop.
Oliver becomes one of the leaders of marauding youth gangs under the combat name Hitler. His men quickly take control of streets and squares. Then the situation escalates completely ...

In her debut novel, Manja Präkels tells of the disappearance of the GDR in a small-town idyll in Brandenburg, the emergence of ghosts thought lost, of friendship and anger.

The author

Manja Präkels, born in Zehdenick/Mark in 1974, is the singer of the highly acclaimed band "Der singende Tresen" and author of the poetry collection "Tresenlieder". She is co-editor of the narrative anthology "Kaltland - Eine Sammlung", a classic of post-reunification literature.

Together with Markus Liske, she published the Erich Mühsam book "Das seid ihr Hunde wert!" for Verbrecher Verlag. (2014) and the volume "Vorsicht Volk! Or: Movements in delusion?" (2015) together. Präkels has received numerous awards for her work, including the Alfred Döblin Scholarship of the Academy of Arts (2005) and the residency scholarship at the Writers House Ventspils, Latvia (2012/13).

Manja Präkels was awarded the Kranichstein Youth Literature Scholarship 2018 and the German Youth Literature Prize 2018 for her debut novel "Als ich mit Hitler Schnapskirschen aß".

She also received the Anna Seghers Prize 2018 for this novel.

Anti-discrimination rule
The organizers reserve the right to make use of their domiciliary rights and to refuse entry to or exclude from the event persons who belong to right-wing extremist parties or organizations, are associated with the right-wing extremist scene or have already made racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic or other inhuman statements in the past.