This year, the Melton Center welcomed its first Writer-in-Residence, Lucia Mann. She is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist from Berlin. She has written two feature film movies for the “Herzkino” series (ZDF) and is now writing a romantic comedy which would break new ground in contemporary German media by featuring a female Jewish protagonist. Her play The Astronaut debuted in New York in June 2023; it featured the Grimme-Preis-winning actor August Zirner and was co-directed by Arnon Grunberg (Blue Mondays, Tirza, The Jewish Messiah). Born and raised in Berlin, Mann also has close ties to the Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Filmfestival in Poland and has lived in Israel, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. She is currently working on a novella called Jan Knopp that explores a major antisemitism scandal in the German feuilleton by following Jan, a rising star in the German media world with towering ambitions and a message many Germans want to hear — but there is more to Jan than he wants to admit. Mann gave a work-in-progress reading of Jan Knopp on April 17, treating audience members to three excerpts of the piece.
Work-In-Progress Reading
October 30, 12:30p - 1:30p
Ohio State Campus
Hagerty Hall Room 198
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Lucia Mann will give a reading of her novella in progress called Jan Knopp. This is the second part of her work-in-progress series focused on this short novella. The novella follows Jan, a rising star in the German media world with towering ambitions and a message many Germans want to hear. But there is more to Jan than he wants to admit.
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