Andreas Pavlic: Blessed Restlessness

“Margit, Amela, Gerda, and Carla demonstrated against the construction of a power plant in Funkberg thirty years ago with full youthful vigor. Now Gerda is gathering the old team again. The Funkberg monastery is secretly being sold to real estate sharks and transformed into a conference center. Together with the student Bezé and Angelika, the last nun living in the monastery, they want to save the threatened cultural heritage of the city. During their investigations, the women uncover an incredible story that leads them back to the Beguines in the 14th century. And thus to one of the first women's movements, which was far more than a religious community.
Andreas Pavlic shows in his new novel, humorously and vividly, that there is always a way for civil resistance.” (Source Edition Atelier)

Andreas Pavlic has always been interested, especially in his journalistic and scientific texts, in social movements. The history of the Beguines, as one of the first women's movements from the Middle Ages, serves as the background in his current novel, against which he reports on the events in Funkberg in the present. Which facets of the historical Beguine community he has given to the six resistant women from Funkberg and how it was for him to adopt the narrative perspective of a deeply religious young woman, he tells us more about in an interview with Daniela Fürst.
Selige Unruhe has been published by Edition Atelier.