Do women have their own room now?

"I am convinced that if we live another hundred years (...) and have our five hundred pounds a year and our own room; if we make a habit of the freedom and courage to write what we think (...), the time will come when the dead poet, Shakespeare's sister, will again assume the body she has so often been forced to shed," writes Virginia Woolf in her essay "My Room". The hundred years have slowly passed, the question is, how much freer and braver have we become? Do women have their own rooms anymore? And is it enough to make women visible and heard? During the evening, German and Hungarian women writers will discuss how self-organisation and advocacy can help women in the arts, and what obstacles can be overcome by working together. Many of the Hungarian writers and literary translators who will speak live in Germany or, as Germans, in Hungary. In the second half of the talk they will also talk about their experiences of integration. Participants of the discussion: Judit Hidas, writer Sophia Matteikat, literary translator Lea Schneider poet Eszter Toldi literary translator Tóth Kinga poet Yael Inokai writer The evening will feature texts translated by the authors and a musical performance by Kinga Tóth, as part of the How Women Speak project.