YOUKI x Literaturabend: Aisha Franz, Margit Mössmer

Alter Schlachthof Wels

22.11.2024 19:30YOUKI x Literaturabend: Aisha Franz, Margit Mössmer

The YOUKI x literary evening embarks on a dazzling journey through the current work realities of young adults and lets us participate in the perspective of a child who is born into this world and does not agree with it.

In the graphic novel Work-Life-Balance by Aisha Franz, Anita, Rex and Sandra stumble through the modern working world. Instead of the glamorous lifestyle promised by trendy start-ups and the hip art scene, bitter reality awaits them: frustration at the lack of artistic success, underchallenge at work, financial troubles. They all find a highly questionable way of dealing with their problems. And while they soon end up in therapy sessions with a strange psychologist independently of each other, we meet a very special child in Margit Mössmer's novel Das Geheimnis meines Erfolgs: Alex likes yellow food, white plastic, thick catalogs, the rattling flaps of mailboxes and Nina, who has strong penguin-mom arms. Alex can already read and write in kindergarten, but the world outside is still difficult to decipher. Eventually the impossible happens: Alex fits in. But at what price?

An evening about being different, childlike emancipation and maternal love, which is also about dreams and disappointments and ultimately about not losing oneself in all this jumble. The evening is organized and moderated by literary scholar Jana Waldhör.

Aisha Franz, born in 1984, lives and works as a freelance comic author and illustrator in Berlin. Her latest book Work-Life-Balance is her fourth graphic novel and was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for best German-language comic in 2022. She also publishes with Berlin-based print studio Colorama, with whom she runs Clubhouse, a residency and publication project aimed specifically at comic artists.

Margit Mössmer, born in 1982, is an author and cultural mediator and lives in Vienna. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Ö1-Literaturwettbewerb, the Startstipendium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Hans Weigel-Literature Scholarship. Following her debut Die Sprachlosigkeit der Fische (2015), which was nominated for the Franz Tumler Prize for best debut, her novel Palmherzen was published in 2019 (both by Edition Atelier). Das Geheimnis meines Erfolgs is her latest novel.