ISOLARII, in collaboration with DAAD, invites you to a performance on the occasion of the release of Michael Lentz’s MOTHERDYING.
Michael Lentz, Marino Pliakas, and Michael Wertmüller
daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, 10969
20 January
Doors: 7.00PM
Free with limited capacity.
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Michael Lentz's Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning novella, MOTHERDYING, confronts the inexpressible pain of losing a mother. It is a profound chronicle of a dying body and a grieving mind. Like the works of Ornette Coleman or Samuel Beckett, MOTHERDYING is a truly avant-garde achievement, forging new expressive possibilities in literature.
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