“Murder mysteries and high politics. Women as victims – women as perpetrators. A literary journey through the centuries” – this is the title of a reading event to mark International Women’s Day on Friday, 8 March, 10.00 am to 1.00 pm, at the Unikum at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus).
Crime writers Regine Kölpin and Sabine Bresan will be presenting their works at a reading. Admission is free. The event is organised by the University’s Gender Equality Office.
Kölpin will read from her novel *Die Lebenspflückerin* (*The Life-Plucker*), which is set in East Frisia in the year 1545, at a time when increasing numbers of religious refugees were fleeing from Holland. The main character is the midwife Hiske Aalken, who is accused of witchcraft and forced to flee from Jever to Gödens. Kölpin lives in Friesland and has been working as a freelance author since 2006. Under the name Regine Fiedler, she also writes children’s and young adult literature.
Sabine Bresan’s novel *quintus* centres on a series of murders in Hanover. All the victims are teachers at a grammar school. For Chief Inspector Jan Jäger and his team, a race against time begins. Bresan studied German and Protestant Theology at the University of Oldenburg. She lives and works in Wilhelmshaven.
