Breathing Life – Stories of Transition
Coming to terms with life – just the way it is
A woman strolls through 1980s East Berlin after work because she doesn’t want to be the first home. In Moscow, a writer, tasked with writing a portrait of the prima ballerina Galina Ulanova, waits for days for a meeting before suddenly, the unexpected happens. A baby takes its first breath; a grandmother takes her last. And a middle-aged woman tries to come to terms with a cancer diagnosis. Stories of longing and wanderlust, of dictatorship and inner freedom, of being and remaining human.
- After the overwhelming success of ‘On Getting Up’: another volume with a selection of stories from the 1970s to the present
- With her trademark precision and laconic style, Helga Schubert takes us on a deep exploration of life
- A committed writer tirelessly raising her voice for an open society
Helga Schubert, born in 1940 in Berlin, was a psychotherapist and writer in the GDR. She had withdrawn from public literary life until she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2020 with her story ‘On Getting Up’. The eponymous volume of short stories was published by dtv in 2021 and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. ‘This Day. A Book of Hours on Love’ was published in 2023, and in 2024, Helga Schubert was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit.
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