Reading and Discussion with Dr. Alexandra Gusetti

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For an Unconditional “Never Again”

Reading and discussion with the author, Dr. Alexandra Gusetti

“One day she came to me. She came on a cold, gray February day. Mathilde called to me silently, speechless, a loving shadow. She drew me forcefully yet gently into her time. A young woman in her thirties entered my life and stayed. Unexpectedly, I embraced her presence, followed her into her world …”

Spontaneously and unexpectedly, the author’s life path crosses that of Mathilde, a deaf young woman who, amid the turmoil of the 1920s, ends up in a psychiatric institution and is murdered in Hartheim in 1940. The narrator delves into the past, is moved by Mathilde’s life, and, transcending the distance of time, weaves a delicate, sensitive, historical dialogue about love, connection, and an unconditional “never again.”

This event will be interpreted into Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

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