Carolina Schutti: Relative Calm

As part of the anniversary exhibition "More than a guest," Carolina Schutti, recipient of the H.C. Artmann scholarship, will read from her latest work "Relative Ruhe. Eine Annäherung" [Relative Calm: An Approach]. The jury praised the author as "a writer of great poetic power, atmospheric strength, and an unmistakable voice." The book asks: What lies beneath the grass we walk on? What stories does the landscape conceal or reveal? And how much support does collective memory need to become immune to forgetting and reinterpretation?

Step by step, the narrator guides readers in connecting historical documents, personal observations, and literary narrative—seeking to do justice to both the past and the present. Carolina Schutti, born in Innsbruck in 1976, is an internationally celebrated writer whose works have been translated into 17 languages. Her oeuvre includes novels, radio plays, and interdisciplinary projects.