Mirna Funk reads from her novel “Balagan”
Location: Klostergut Paradies, Schlatt TG
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Afterwards, GF will offer all guests refreshments.
Prior to the reading, there will be a guided tour of the Iron Library. (Registration required at eisenbibliothek@georgfischer.com or 0041 52 547 13 00)
The reading will be held in German.
“Balagan”
Old stuff, at best a memento—that's all Amira expects when she pushes open the door to her late grandfather's storage room in Berlin-Moabit. But then she finds herself standing in front of her Jewish family's art collection, which had been believed lost since World War II. “WTF!” thinks Amira, and immediately posts an Insta story. Should Amira donate the artworks to a museum or sell them? When doubts arise as to whether the collection was legally returned to her grandfather, Amira suddenly has to justify herself. A razor-sharp novel about a young woman who must find her way through the chaos (Hebrew: “balagan”) that German-Jewish history has left her.
Mirna Funk studied philosophy and now works as an author and freelance journalist for publications including the FAZ, SZ, and Die Zeit. From 2018 to 2020, she wrote about Jewish life for Vogue online. Her debut novel Winternähe (Near Winter) was awarded the Uwe Johnson Prize, and Who Cares became a bestseller. Mirna Funk lives in Berlin and Tel Aviv.
