Lesung Ana Pawlik „Als die Würfel fielen“

What's it about?

Reading: Book presentation Ana Pawlik reads from her new novel „Als die Würfel fielen“ — a novel about the Upper Austrian Peasants' War of 1626. Austria 1625: Adam von Herberstorff relentlessly pursues the Counter-Reformation on behalf of the Emperor. Those who cling to the Lutheran faith risk their possessions, freedom, and lives. Peasant girl Lena flees with her child to Steyr, where city judge Wolf Madlseder seeks to preserve the last remnants of conscience freedom. When three dozen men are forced to gamble for their lives on Herberstorff's orders, the arbitrariness ignites the people's anger — and an uprising breaks out, changing everything and unavoidably intertwining the fates of Lena, Madlseder, and Herberstorff. Ana Pawlik was born in 1981 in Baden-Württemberg. After training in the social sector and several years of backpacking through Africa, Canada, and Scandinavia, she settled in Vienna in 2006. The author now lives with her family in o...

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AKKU

Organiser: Stadtbücherei "Marlen Haushofer"