Her creativity, talent and humor went hand in hand with the suffering and rejection she experienced. As eventful as the life of the New Zealand-British writer Katherine Mansfield was, it was also short. Just 34 years of her life were enough to have a huge influence on the literary form of the English short story. Her rather narrow work is bursting with oblique narrative and subtle observations. Before the writer died of tuberculosis in 1923, she was extremely unpopular.
Captivated by the contradictions of her life, the Munich best-selling author Michaela Karl, who has made a name for herself with biographies such as the most recently of the dancer Isadora Duncan (“Let’s dance and drink champagne – despite everything!”), has now dedicated herself to the biography of Katherine Mansfield . The book premiere of “I need a lover who prevents me from thinking” (btb) is on October 10th at the Literatur Moths bookstore.
Michaela Karl: “I need a lover who prevents me from thinking”, Tuesday, October 10th, 7:30 p.m., Literature Moths, Rumfordstrasse 48, li-mo.com