Innsbruck liest Warm-Up: Friederike Gösweiner liest „Regenbogenweiß“ 2023

10.000 books and one audio book are available as a literary gift at Innsbruck liest. To warm up for the 19th edition of the campaign, we invite Friederike Gösweiner, with her debut "Traurige Freiheit" Innsbruck liest author 2017, to read from Regenbogenweiß (Droschl, 2022). In conversation with Doris Eibl (jury chair Innsbruck liest), she tells us what has happened since then and provides insights into her work.
Innsbruck Reads 2023
The books will be distributed from 1 June, this time we will organise the supporting programme after the distribution campaign from mid-June.
Information on the selected book and the programme will be announced from the end of May. stadtbibliothek.innsbruck.gv.at/innsbruckliest
Content
Rainbow White is a book about equality and happiness, about the necessity of mourning, the fundamental meaning of time and about Europe in the here and now.
At the beginning of the novel there is an ending: Hermann dies suddenly and unexpectedly. He leaves behind his wife and two grown-up children. All three grieve - each in their own way. Marlene, a teacher who has just retired, begins to help refugees; son Bob, a cosmologist and time researcher, retreats to nature at the extreme southern end of Europe; and daughter Filippa, a philosopher in Paris, wants more than ever to finally become a mother. For all of them, the question of a happy life is posed anew and more urgently - while great social changes and developments are underway, which they follow with scepticism. "So many decisions that were still unmade back then, that had to be made in order for them to exist here today. And each one could have turned out differently and then it wouldn't be today. But how did you make decisions, Filippa thought. How did one make them right."
Friederike Gösweiner was born in Rum in 1980. She studied German and political science in Innsbruck and has since worked as an author, editor and reviewer. in 2016, her first novel Traurige Freiheit was published, for which she received the Austrian Book Prize in the category Debut