Name: Antje Rávik Strubel: “The influence of pheasants”
Start: 2025-08-23T19:00:00
Location: TBA

Rheingau Musik Festival

Antje Rávik Strubel won the Rheingau Literature Prize in 2007, followed by the German Book Prize in 2021 for her novel "Blue Woman." Four years later, her sequel is complete, and the Potsdam-based author is performing in the Rheingau for the third time. The new novel is titled "The Influence of the Pheasants," and its plot could be described as a psychological thriller: a Berlin cultural journalist is accused of driving a prominent theater director to his death through her reporting. But anyone familiar with Antje Rávik Strubel's books will suspect that this is about more than individual guilt. It is a darkly humorous novel in the spirit of Nabokov. The protagonist's handling of the accusations creates a picture of a society inflamed and agitated by the media. For the journalist, it nevertheless represents the promise of a new life.