Kate Zambreno’s “Fool”: Pictures of a Life Exhibition

My novel, my child, my artwork: Kate Zambreno tells of the expectations of a writing mother between vagueness and concretion – and parallels life and work with works by the artist Eva Hesse.

The book “Schaum” by Kate Zambreno, born in Illinois in 1977, parallels the birth of a child with the creation of a work of art, in this case her own novel in the making. What sounds so simple and comprehensible – for example, the Munich Renaissance expert Ulrich Pfisterer wrote a whole book some time ago about the metaphor of the creation of the artwork as birth and above all about Renaissance artists in their own description as virile “fathers” of the works – has surprisingly not yet been completed in the belletrist literature as well as the art historical one in this form.

Why Stonehenge? An exhibition worth seeing in the State Archaeological Collection presents the results of a research project on the strange monument.

For years, Stühlinger Kirchplatz has overwhelmed the Freiburgers. Two journalists observed the focal point for two years. In their podcast “Platz Angst” they ask questions that affect the whole of Germany.

Rachel Cusk likes to write bitingly, sometimes people feel exposed. In her novel “The Life of M”, the main character strongly resembles a real Hollywood star. This led to the literary scandal of the summer.