Frauen, die beim Lachen sterben
Lesung & Gespräch mit MQ Writer-in-Residence Alexandra Stahl

Tue 10.09.2024, 19h l Free entry

This event will be held in German.

With plenty of black humour and a great love of the bizarre, ‘Frauen, die beim Lachen sterben’ tells of life in relationships and the end of a friendship. And about the need to tell yourself and everyone else a story when you are abandoned. A story that, like all stories, cannot be completely trusted.

In this novel, Iris ends up on a Greek island in the off-season. Apparently every local there is a hunter and the man at the supermarket checkout looks like Kevin Spacey. Iris wants to calm down and understand what happened between her and her friends Ela and Katja, what made them friends in the first place. She wants to find out why she spent years with Simon, even though she never wanted to be: a woman in a relationship, especially not with a writer. So she thinks about her life and the role she plays in it. And what is still important when something that once meant everything to her has been lost and has become irrelevant.

Alexandra Stahl, born in 1986, is a freelance writer and journalist living in Berlin. She studied American Studies, English Literature and History at the University of Würzburg and then worked for a long time at the German Press Agency. She writes prose, essays and travel reports and works as a volunteer in a retirement home. Her novel ‘Männer ohne Möbel’ was published by Jung & Jung in 2021 and the short story collection ‘Wenn, dann trifft es uns beide’ in 2022. Her latest novel ‘Frauen, die beim Lachen sterben’ was published by Jung & Jung in spring 2024.

Mia Eidlhuber conducts the conversation.
The event is being organised in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA).