Reading from Albertine Sarrazin's "The Outbreak"
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"Freedom really is the worst of all vices" - Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "The Breakout"
Reading via live stream from the special exhibition "In Prison": Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "The Breakout" - YouTube
A cooperation between the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie of TU Dresden (CFF) and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DHMD)
Albertine Sarrazin & Camilla Renschke
Albertine Sarrazin processed her own prison experiences in her autobiographical texts. Sarrazin spent a large part of her youth in prisons, fled repeatedly and finally made her breakthrough as a writer - thanks in part to the support of Simone de Beauvoir. Sarrazin's turbulent life and her authentic descriptions made the author a literary sensation in France in the 1960s, before she died in 1967 at the age of just 29.
The actress Camilla Renschke, winner of the German Audiobook Award 2020 ("Best Interpreter"), known from the Bremen crime scene, among others, read excerpts from Albertine Sarrazin's novel Der Ausbruch.
With an introduction by Dr. Matthias Kern, Institute of Romance Studies at TU Dresden and with the kind support of INK PRESS. Albertine Sarrazin's works have been published there since 2018 in the translation by Claudia Steinitz.
- Date: 23.03.2021
- Time : 19:00 - 21:00
- Location: Online event via live stream ( DHMD YouTube channel) from the exhibition "In Prison"
- Speakers: Actress Camilla Renschke & Dr. Matthias Kern, Institute of Romance Studies at the TU Dresden
- Language: German
- Organizer: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DHMD) & Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie (CFF ) with the kind support of INK PRESS.
Participation free of charge // without registration
Further information:
- This event is part of the special exhibition: IM GEFÄNGNIS, Vom Entzug der Freiheit - PRISON, au-delà des murs, 26.09.2020 - 31.05.2021, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. Cooperation exhibition of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva and the Musée des Confluences, Lyon.
- Video tours of the Dresden exhibition were offered via the IM GEFÄNGNIS_DIGITAL website. In addition, the Knast-Post project offered an insight into everyday prison life (a DHMD project in collaboration with inmates and staff from Zeithain and Chemnitz prisons).
