Dörte Hansen in Göttingen: Reading from Broder about family, inheritance, and change
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Dörte Hansen presents Broder in Göttingen
On October 3, 2026, Dörte Hansen will present her new novel Broder at the Sheddachhalle in the Sartorius Quartier. The reading leads into a family story about origin, inheritance, sibling rivalry, and the question of how much growth a community, a farm, and a person can endure.
A novel between family order and upheaval
Broder is Dörte Hansen's fourth major novel. At its center is a son who does not inherit the farm. His four minutes older twin brother Henning takes over the family business, aligning it for maximum efficiency but stumbles in the process. An unexpected opportunity opens up for Broder.
Hansen combines precise character portrayal with a sharply observed view of rural living worlds. Her literary style revolves around the tensions between tradition and change, belonging and exclusion, familial duty and personal freedom.
Dörte Hansen and the art of the North German village story
Dörte Hansen was born in 1964 in Husum, grew up in North Frisia, and initially worked as a journalist and radio editor. After studying sociolinguistics, English studies, Romance studies, and Frisian studies, she earned her PhD at the University of Hamburg. With Altes Land, Mittagsstunde, and Zur See, she established a distinctive voice in contemporary German literature.
Her novels combine linguistic precision, laconic humor, and a realistic engagement with home. For her works, Hansen has received, among other awards, the Usedom Literature Prize, the Rheingau Literature Prize, the Grimmelshausen Literature Prize, the Low German Literature Prize of the city of Kappeln, and the Arts Prize of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Literary experience in the Sheddachhalle
The reading atmosphere in the Sartorius Quartier creates the right setting for an author encounter, where language, voice, and narrative tension become directly tangible. Dörte Hansen's linguistic art particularly gains strength where familial closeness turns into social hardship, and from a seemingly private story, a cultural discourse about responsibility and the limits of growth arises.
The discussion will be moderated by Jan Ehlert, NDR cultural editor. Visitors can expect not only a reading but also a literary classification of the new novel and its central questions.
Conclusion: An author with a precise gaze on origin and change
Dörte Hansen brings a multifaceted family novel to Göttingen with Broder. The event promises strong language, narrative depth, and an intense author encounter about inheritance, efficiency, responsibility, and the longing for one's own place. Anyone wishing to experience contemporary literature with social relevance and human warmth should attend this reading live.
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