Pearl Brewery

In the book PERLENBRAUEREI (literally: pearl brewery), 20-year-old Jo moves from Norway to an English-speaking country to study. As she is looking for a room, she finally ends up at the door of Carol who lives in a former brewery in what used to be an industrial district of town. The very same day, Jo moves in into this strange old brick building that has been converted into a makeshift apartment.There are no rooms, the huge factory space has simply been split up into different areas with large chipboard panels - which shelter from being looked at but do not provide any private sphere. Especially sounds wander around freely under the corrugated iron roof, they expand, change and disconnect from their origin.
And as the house increasingly develops a life of its own, almost like a living organism, the boundaries of Jo's and Carol's lives, even between the young women themselves keep blurring more and more. Only the border between inside and outside, the dreamlike symbiotic world within the house and the normal university reality outside of it, remains stable and gets increasingly stark.

In two episodes of half an hour each, actress Rahel Schöppenthau reads different excerpts from the debut novel of Norwegian musician Jenny Hval (English title: Paradise Rot) in an acoustic dialogue with musician Freya Arde who improvises live sounds. Start into your 48 Stunden Neukölln weekend by letting yourselves be drawn into this intensely sensual story while the dark slowly sets in outside!
Reading in German only.