The reading is on Friday, the 30.06.2023 in the
Cafe Böcklein Ilmenau
, admission 19:30, start 20:00.

Tickets, in advance for 5 EUR (students) and 8 EUR (earners) , are available in the Ilmenau city information and the Ilmenau book shop , at the box office one euro more.

Supported by the city of Ilmenau

Reading with Lucia Herbst

Lucia Herbst, born in 1982, writes fantasy with reference to fairy tales and ancient sagas. In 2020, she began work on her debut novel. In her other life, she is an appraiser and lives with her husband, child and cat above the rooftops of Munich. She does her best writing when it’s raining, the child is asleep, and the hangover is full.

“Medusa: Bloody Alive”

— WINNER of the prestigious German-language literary award for fantasy SERAPH 2023 in the category “Best Debut”—.

Cologne, in the present. Medusa lives. For thousands of years she had to hide from the gods and people. Tired of being the monster of her own tragic history, she dares to do the unthinkable: she brings Poseidon and Athena, the gods of Olympus who made her a monster, before an international court of the gods. This outrageous incident causes an uproar among the immortals of this world, because Medusa is not the only one who has something to say against the injustices of the world of gods …