YADE YASEMIN ÖNDER & DANA VON SUFFRIN

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Two novels that explore modern relationship concepts with wit and insight. Online dating, desire for children, and the cultural industry: In this triangle, the actually successful storyteller moves in Önder's new novel. Once celebrated as child prodigies of migration literature, she tries to overcome writer's block and the breakup of her long-term partner Kar. She puts all her hope into the desire for children, a pregnancy, regardless of who it is with. With sharp precision and wonderfully entertaining, Yade Önder's narrator dissects the mechanisms of modern relationships as well as a supposedly feminist cultural industry that still leaves men in control. "Toxibaby" is a ruthless novel about the contrasting facets of love and a damaged life. Herzchen loves Toxibaby and Toxibaby loves Herzchen, and yet nothing works at all. Herzchen is the celebrated millennial writer who has everything, yet is unhappy; Toxibaby is beautiful, brilliant, and angry at the world — including Herzchen. "Until the bitter end, this novel offers brilliant entertainment, but also a satirical master narrative about the bleakness of Jewish present." (Caspar Battegay, NZZ am Sonntag) The event is part of the series "Körper erzählen". It invites participants to explore questions about genealogies, bodily experiences, and power relations through a constellation of current, clever, and aesthetically confident texts. In cooperation with Art of Intervention. Participants and additional information: YADE YASEMIN ÖNDER (*1985 in Wiesbaden) writes prose and for the stage. In 2018, she received the main prize for prose at open mike. Her debut novel "Wir wissen, wir könnten, und fallen synchron" (2022) was awarded, among others, the debut prize of lit. COLOGNE. In 2024, the collective novel "Wirkommen" was published, of which she is a co-author. "Anti Müller" was nominated for the German Book Prize 2026. DANA VON SUFFRIN (*1985 in Munich) studied in Munich, Naples, and Jerusalem. Her debut "Otto" was published in 2019. Dana von Suffrin has received numerous awards, including the Förderpreis of the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis (2020) and the Chamisso Prize (2025). She lives in Munich. Recently published: "Noch mal von vorne" (2024).