“In winter, the shining leaves of the persimmon tree fall to the ground, and only the orange ripe persimmon fruits still cling to the tree in peculiar beauty. At the end of the year 2000, as a thirty-six-year-old, I resembled a winter persimmon fruit; I fell from the leafless tree to the earth and burst into a pulp. I was pushed onto the operating table with a diagnosis of terminal cancer. My son’s father surprisingly fell in love with my sister, who already had a husband and a son, and eventually left me.”
The Berlin-based author, curator and artist Dr Huang Mei will read from her autobiography “Loving until Death” on two evenings (Thu, 21.07. and Wed, 27.07.2022, admission at 7 pm). In it, the Chinese-born author deals with an international love story, the challenges of being a single mother and the fight against cancer. The first-person narrator allows …
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Image above: Installation + Performance Huang Mei, 2022, Photo: amb photography by Anna Maria Baur