MQ Writer-in-Residence Dana von Suffrin: Nochmal von vorne
Reading

Wed 10.09., 19h | MQ Summer Stage, Main Courtyard
Free entry | German language

MQ Writer-in-Residence Dana von Suffrin, who will be a guest at the MuseumsQuartier in September and October 2025, will read from her virtuoso novel “Nochmal von vorne”, which is about modern Jewish life between Munich and Tel Aviv.
Powerfully and with great black humor, Dana von Suffrin tells of a German-Jewish family in which an entire century of violence and expulsion continues to have an effect - and of two sisters who are divided and reconciled because there is something that only they understand about each other.

What holds a family together when there seems to be only centrifugal forces and everything seems to be heading towards something falling apart? The death of her father and the dissolution of his home set many things in motion for Rosa that she was actually glad had been dormant. After all, the Jeruscher family's history is a jumble of quarrels, attempted or successful escapes, longings and disappointed hopes and the futile desire to find a home somewhere. Now everything is back: the memories of her crazy childhood in the 90s, the breakdown of her parents' marriage and her relatives in Israel, but also her missing older sister, with whom she had broken up for good reason.

Author Tonio Schachinger will be in conversation with Dana von Suffrin during the reading.

Dana von Suffrin, born in Munich in 1985, studied political science, Jewish history and culture as well as general and comparative literature at the universities of Munich, Naples and Jerusalem. She received her doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in 2017. Her debut novel Otto was published in 2019 and received numerous awards, followed in 2024 by the novel Nochmal von vorne, which was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2024 and for which she received the Tukan Prize and the Chamisso Prize. In 2024, she published the anthology Wir schon Wieder. She has written four radio plays for BR, most recently 2025 Nie wieder gut or Darf jetzt wirklich ein Jude der König von Bayern sein.

Tonio Schachinger, born in New Delhi in 1992, studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna and language arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Nicht wie ihr, his first novel, was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2019, which he received in 2023 for his second novel, Echtzeitalter.

The reading is organized in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA). Since 2010, the MuseumsQuartier Wien, in cooperation with the BMEIA, has been inviting international writers to Vienna to live and work for two months in a residential studio on the MuseumsQuartier site. The MQ Residency enables the authors to network with the Austrian literary scene.
 

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