"Ein Harbour-Front-Dialog"

One of Germany's most widely read authors meets a bestselling writer and essayist who treats the personal as a literary and social question: Ildikó von Kürthy and Daniel Schreiber are creating a joint evening at the Harbour Front Literaturfestival - a conversation developed especially for Hamburg.

The starting point is a carte blanche for Ildikó von Kürthy and Daniel Schreiber. The two are close friends who regularly walk around the Alster and have shared a stage before, at the book launch of "Alt genug", which Daniel Schreiber hosted. For Harbour Front, they come together for a walk of ideas - an open conversation between two authors whose themes overlap.

Ildikó von Kürthy has spent many years writing about women's lives, midlife, relationships and family, the body, ageing, self-doubt, and the demands of one's own biography. She is direct, funny, and vulnerable - qualities that have won her a large readership. In "Alt genug", this writing has moved even further into autobiographical self-examination.

Daniel Schreiber's books "Nüchtern", "Zuhause", "Allein", "Die Zeit der Verluste", and "Liebe!" explore themes such as addiction, origins, loneliness, grief, and the political relevance of collective emotions. These themes also run through his writing workshops, one of which Ildikó von Kürthy has attended.

This evening, Ildikó von Kürthy and Daniel Schreiber are taking a risk: the actual shape of the event will emerge spontaneously. That is precisely what makes this Harbour Front creation so compelling - we are genuinely curious where a conversation carried by mutual trust, curiosity, and a shared engagement with themes that matter to so many of us will lead.

Ildikó von Kürthy (born 1968) is a journalist, podcaster, and author. Her debut novel "Mondscheintarif" appeared in 1999; her books have been translated multiple times...