Double Reading with Bianca Nawrath and Karin Rey

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Double reading with Bianca Nawrath and Karin Rey Bianca Nawrath: Schöne Scham Moderation: Leonora Schulthess Two friends, a weekend at the Baltic Sea – and for the first time Ola is also there: single, loves women and men, carrying a biography of Hildegard of Bingen. For Amalia's friend Christian, she is a disaster with her feminist remarks, and the first evening threatens to escalate over the barbecue question and a conversation about female self-pleasure. The second couple, Kata and Lenny, are irritated by Christian's behavior but are mainly occupied with their own suppressed conflicts. At the latest when Amalia and Ola suddenly disappear, the mood finally shifts: How does one free oneself from a self-destructive relationship – and when does looking away become complicity? With a sharp eye on toxic power structures, pointed dialogues, and psychological tension, Bianca Nawrath writes highly amusingly and accurately about guilt, shame, and female solidarity. Bianca Nawrath, born in 1997, works as an author and actress and lives in Berlin. In 2021, her debut novel "Iss das jetzt, wenn du mich liebst" was published. In fall 2026, her non-fiction book "Poppkultur. Wie wir aufhören, Sexfantasien zu sein, und anfangen Sexfantasien zu haben" will follow. Karin Rey: Karat Moderation: Noëmi Schöb Why she was named after a volcano, Etna doesn't know. She's actually only explosive when she encounters injustices, especially in the dirty gold trade. But the line on the pregnancy test throws her off track. Svenja loves lists and diligently works through them. Today: pick up wedding rings, wedding in three weeks. Not on the list: a road trip with a completely stranger goldsmith. Two women, one car, singing their youth songs, heading to the first father candidate, because Etna can't handle the child alone, where she has promised to put all her energy into fair gold. Quickly, the two women realize: they share more than just the birth year. Karin Rey tells with lots of wit and drive about breaking out of discomfort – an engaged, weightless debut. Karin Rey, born in 1990, after graduating from the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel, published her travel guide "Closeby" in 2022. "Karat" is her novel debut. She lives in Windisch in Aargau. The reading is part of the Literary Autumn Gstaad Festival: www.literarischerherbst.ch