Reading with Helene Hegemann and actress Lavinia Wilson followed by a conversation with Eva Birkenstock (Director, Ludwig Forum Aachen) and Hermann Müller (Freelance Curator for Literature, Berlin).
With Schlachtensee (2022), Helene Hegemann explodes in fifteen episodes all the categories through which we try to understand the present. (Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishers)
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Helene Hegemann, born in 1992, lives in Berlin. In 2008, she won the Max Ophüls Prize with her first film Torpedo. In 2010, she made her debut as an author with the novel Axolotl Roadkill, which has been translated into 20 languages. The film adaptation, which she directed herself, won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Festival. Her second novel Jage zwei Tiger was published in 2013, followed by Bungalow in 2018, for which she was nominated for the German Book Prize. In 2021, she wrote about Patti Smith and Christoph Schlingensief for KiWi Music Library. She directs for opera, theater and film.
Lavinia Wilson lives in Berlin. At the age of 11, she was discovered by Sherry Hormann for her cinema debut Leise Schatten (1992). She played her first leading role in Connie Walther’s debut film Das Erste Mal (1996). After later forays into theater, she returned to film with the Austrian Horvath adaptation Freigesprochen (2007). Further film and television productions followed, including Der letzte schöne Tag (2011), Quellen des Lebens (2013), Tatort – Borowski und der Engel (2013) and Schoßgebete (2014), for which Wilson worked with directors such as Connie Walther, Henk Handloegten, Andreas Kleinert, Johannes Fabrick, Oskar Roehler, Sönke Wortmann, Florian Cossen, Randa Chahoud, and Robert Thalheim. Most recently, Wilson took on leading roles in the amazon prime series Deutschland86 (2017), Deutschland89 (2019), in Andere Eltern (TNT Comedy, 2018/2019), Was wir wollten (2019) as well as in the Grimme Award-winning coronavirus series Drinnen (ZDFneo) and the Netflix production Billion Dollar Code (both 2020). For her performance as star lawyer Leo Roth in the ARD mini-series Legal Affairs (2021), Wilson was honored by the German Academy of Television with the award for best actress.
In addition to the museum’s numerous activities in the fields of performance, dance, music and film, the Forum Literatur introduces an explicitly literary constant to the program of the Ludwig Forum Aachen. From now on, international authors are invited in regular intervals to share their work with a broad public in the context of readings, performances, workshops, and conversations. The first edition of the Forum Literatur takes place at the Ludwig Forum Aachen from January to December 2024. It was conceived in close dialogue between Eva Birkenstock (Director, Ludwig Forum Aachen) and Hermann Müller (Literary Curator, Berlin) and is generously supported by the Kunststiftung NRW. In 2024, the Aachen-based Backhaus book store will set up book tables for the events as part of a cooperation with Forum Literatur.
