Literature LIVE: Mareike Fallwickl — “Hält euch fest”

A new story that we urgently need: Luzia grows up in a loving house community that offers refuge for very different people. In the house, various forms of love - queer, platonic, many more - as well as shared parenthood were lived. Later, as an adult, Luzia fought against patriarchal structures as a theatre director and tried to change something for the better. Her girlfriend Marle, whom she has known since her youth, has a strong desire to have children in her early forties and opts for an unusual path away from dating and relationships with men. She experiences great solidarity in the house. But suddenly, after a devastating storm, everything that this electoral family has built together over decades seems threatened. What does it take for such a community to exist in times like these?

This powerful book questions our beliefs about friendship and romance and boldly describes the utopia we want for our lives.

**Mareike Fallwickl** made her debut in 2018 with _Dunkelgrün almost black_, followed in 2019 by _The light is much brighter here_. _Die Wut, die bleibt_ (2022) was a great success with the press and audience, appeared on stage at the Salzburg Festival and is being filmed for cinema. _Und alle so still_ (2024) made it into the top 10 of the Spiegel bestseller list and is also staged at various theaters. Mareike Fallwickl lives in the province of Salzburg and is committed to promoting literature online and offline, with a focus on female and diverse narrative voices.

**An event by Literatur LIVE in cooperation with the Thalia bookstore. **