Müttertage

A tribute to the heroines of everyday life - in many stories about mothers, daughters, grandmothers and mothers-in-law.

"My new book is about how a woman in her nineties, despite the fog in her head, bravely carries on, solves world crises and raises the cat" - this is how Wladimir Kaminer describes what his own mother does. She is in excellent company: for who keeps the world turning in some semblance of order, if not our mothers? They try - more or less discreetly - to steer the fate of their offspring, offer advice and even entrust us with their secret recipe for aspic.

Not everything receives the hoped-for affection, but it always makes for a beautiful story. Potential mothers-in-law don't come up short either: whoever wants to please them is capable of extraordinary transformations - Wladimir could observe this in his own son.