Lize Spit: Writing, to distance oneself. Writing, to reconnect.

READING & TALK: Lize Spit in conversation with Malu Schrader about dis/-connecting Writing. Reading Voice: Jane Chirwa.

Writing, to distance oneself.

Writing, to reconnect.

A mother dying.

A body, including its language, finding its way back home.

Lize Spit, Samuel Fischer Guest Professor for Summer Semester 2026, and Malu Schrader, editor and cultural journalist, discuss Lize’s debut novel Het smelt (Und es schmilzt, 2017, S. Fischer Verlag) and Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (Autobiografie meines Körpers, 2025). Lize’s work invites the audience to reflect on the idea that our bodies are connected to our roots, our parents and our childhood.

How can writing shape these relationships, parallels, and reconstructions? How is language not only a matter of the mind, but also of the body? A conversation about growing up in an environment where language is used as a tool of power—and about the price of becoming, and being, a writer.

Jane Chirwa will read excerpts from Autobiografie meines Körpers in German.

The event will be held in English. Free admission.

ENTRANCE & START - 7.00 pm

Die Samuel Fischer Gastprofessur wird vom S. Fischer Verlag, der Freien Universität Berlin, dem DAAD Künstlerprogramm Berlin und Holtzbrinck Berlin – Inspire Together umgesetzt.