Medulla meets Anti Müller - Verena Güntner and Yade Yasemin Önder

Motherhood desires and life visions: In Verena Güntner's "Medulla" (DuMont 2025), three couples drift apart during a hot summer as pregnant women, full of hope, radically resist entrenched structures. Different is Yade Yasemin Önder's "Anti Müller" (park x ullstein 2026): facing her unfulfilled desire for motherhood, the narrator gradually loses her mind. Restrained partners contribute to this bitterness, making decisions not only for themselves but also about their partners' futures. A conversation with literary editor Alexandra Friedrich about bodily autonomy and gender roles.