STRIKER

Book launch event with author Helene Hegemann and guests.

Striker is about a world in which the boundaries between conspiracy myths, class struggle and extreme violence are getting increasingly blurred. Intense and precise in style, Helene Hegemann’s novel engages with martial arts as well as homelessness, prosperity and repression, focusing on the moment when the fear of repression is leading to acts of violence, and the weakness we must embrace in order to prevent this.

With: Helene Hegemann, Joshua Kantara, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Lavinia Wilson, Daniel Zillmann

Volksbühnen-Band:
Piano: Sir Henry
Drums: Jan Wüstenberg
E-Bass: Fee Aviv Dubois
Guitar: Jens Gebhardt
Saxophone: Eike Grögel
Trumpet: Friedemann Winkler
Vocals: Antje Schulz, Yvonne Schulz, Anke Marschall, Sir Henry

Helene Hegemann, born in 1992, debuted in 2010 with the novel Axolotl Roadkill, which was translated into 20 languages. Her second novel Jage zwei Tiger was released in 2013, followed by Bungalow in 2018, which was nominated for the German Book Award. In 2021 she wrote essays on Patti Smith and Christoph Schlingensief for the  KiWi Music Library. In 2022 she published the collection of short stories Schlachtensee.

In cooperation with Literaturhaus Berlin and publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch