Friendship is one of the great literary themes. It can be a salvation or a strain, can be long-lasting or may fall apart over trivial matters. How do women writers write about friendship today? About closeness and distance, support and freedom, solidarity and self-determination? Shida Bazyar (Sisters in Arms), Isabel Bogdan (The Four of Us), Alina Bronsky (Easy as Pi) and Katharina Hagena (River Lines) examine relationships between women in very different ways – with a keen eye for the breaches and the things that connect.
An evening about friendship in life and literature, about togetherness, silence, laughter, arguments – and about why female friends in literature often tell us more about ourselves than any love story. Host: Mona Ameziane

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Alina Bronsky © Christine Fenzl

Alina Bronsky

Alina Bronsky was born in 1978 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and has lived… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.

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Isabel Bogdan © Heike Blenk

Isabel Bogdan

Isabel Bogdan, born in Cologne in 1968, studied English and Japanese… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.

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Katharina Hagena © Heike Steinweg

Katharina Hagena

Katharina Hagena, born in Karlsruhe, lives as a freelance writer in… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.

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Mona Ameziane © Annika Fußwinkel

Mona Ameziane

Born in 1994, Mona Ameziane grew up in the Ruhr region of Germany.… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.

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Shida Bazyar © Tabea Treichel

Shida Bazyar

Shida Bazyar was born in 1988 in Hermeskeil, Germany. She studied… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.

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Books

Drei Kameradinnen

Drei Kameradinnen

Shida Bazyar
KiWi

978-3-462-00354-3

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Flusslinien

Flusslinien

Katharina Hagena
KiWi

978-3-462-00729-9

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Pi mal Daumen

Pi mal Daumen

Alina Bronsky
Kiepenheuer & Witsch

3462004255

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Wohnverwandtschaften

Wohnverwandtschaften

Isabel Bogdan
KiWi

978-3-462-00419-9

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    08. March 2026
    17:00

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