BOOK PRESENTATION + DISCUSSION
SCHEIBLETTENKIND

Multimedia Book Presentation + Discussion with Writer and Illustrator Eva Müller

Thu, 05/30/2024
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut LA Project Space

On Thursday, May 30th, @ 7:00 PM at the Goethe-Institut, writer-illustrator and Villa Aurora Fellow Eva Müller will present a special multimedia reading of her award-winning graphic novel, SCHEIBLETTENKIND, filled with music, weirdness, laughter, pop culture, history and european realism. 

This event is part of the long-standing cooperation with the Villa Aurora, where Villa Aurora Fellows showcase their projects (past, present, and future) at the Goethe-Institut.  

Admission is free with RSVP below. 
Light refreshments provided

SCHEDULE:
6:30pm Doors open.
7:00pm Welcoming + Introduction
7:15pm Presentation of SCHEIBLETTENKIND + Discussion with Eva Müller.
9:30pm End of Event

Secure, free Parking is available at Metro/Retail parking structure with rear entrance to the Goethe-Institut located at
674 S. Westlake Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90057

SCHEIBLETTENKIND
"My class always hovered over me. It shamed me and reminded me that I grew up in a house without books. It reminded me that I am a person whose parents never went to an art museum and whose grandmother has never seen the sea."

"White trash," "ragamuffin," and "peasant" are just a few of the slurs that Eva Müller's protagonist was often called by other children when she was younger. These scolding words were meant to ostracize the young girl who did not come from a privileged background and to put her in her place.
In this award-winning, autofictional graphic novel, Müller tells her own story and the story of her family. In clear, powerful, impressive images of astonishing aesthetic variety, Müller depicts the labor history of a working-class family over the past three generations-- from her grandparents' rural origins, her parents' working-class milieu in West Germany, and her experiences growing up uneducated and poor, to her emancipation as an artist. 
Müller's protagonist is caught between two worlds, where her working-class legacy always hovers over her in the form of a snake. At the same time, she tries to navigate through life, finding her way.

© Thorsten-Wagner

Eva Müller is a freelance cartoonist, writer, and artist. She lives and works in Hamburg. Her stories are published internationally, presented in multimedia readings at festivals, cinemas, literature houses, and museums, and have won several awards. She is also an activist and cultural worker, most recently as co-founder of the Comics Union under the umbrella of documenta fifteen.

As part of her project at Villa Aurora, Eva Müller is planning a graphic novel that will shed light on the lives of the four women killed by Fritz Honka: Frieda Roblick, Gertrud Breuer, Anna Beuschel, and Ruth Schult, who are virtually unknown. These reconstructed biographies are representative of many biographies of women in the FRG of the 1970s, who often fought hopeless battles for their existence.

Selected Works
2022 |Scheiblettenkind(graphic novel), Suhrkamp Berlin
2022 |Stereo Total’s Party Anticonformiste(anthology), Ventil Verlag Mainz
2021 |Too Tough to Die(anthology), Birdcage Bottom Books, New York

Selected Prizes and Awards
2023 | Scholarship, Fritz-Hüser-Institut Dortmund, forScheiblettenkind
2022 | Artist in Residence, Koneen Satio Foundation, Finland
2021 | Artist in Residence, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France


Presented as part of  the long-standing cooperation with the Villa Aurora, where Villa Aurora Fellows showcase their projects (past, present, and future) here at the Goethe-Institut.