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.
Lucia Mann 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 that would break new ground in contemporary German media by featuring a female Jewish protagonist. Her play “The Astronaut” debuted in New York this June; 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, Lucia also has close ties to the Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Film Festival in Poland and has lived in Israel, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. She is currently working on a novel that explores a major antisemitism scandal in the German feuilleton.
Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Department of German Languages and Literatures.
