Tomorrow, our wonderful client Sabine Rossbach will be taking part in a LiteraTour 2024 event, celebrating Margret Steckel’s novel ‘Mutterrache’.

Last fall, writer Margret Steckel was awarded the Prix Batty Weber prize, Luxembourg’s most important literary award, for her life’s work. In this event, the writer looks back on her long and eventful life in an interview with journalist & moderator Valerija Berdi.

Born in Mecklenburg in 1934, Margret Steckel left the German Democratic Republic in 1955. After completing her interpreting exams in West Berlin, she came to film as an assistant for dramaturgy and scripts, as well as a translator of dubbing scripts. After getting married in 1964, she went to Ireland and England with her family for 14 years and has lived in Luxembourg as a freelance writer since 1983. In 1997 she received the prestigious Prix Servais for her story ‘The Last of the Bavarian Square’.

The conversation is accompanied by excerpts from Margret Steckel’s novel ‘Mutterrache’, published in honour of the Batty Weber Prize, which will be read by our amazing Sabine!

Headshot photo by David Ghisa