Science Slam

In 2022, Stefanie Sargnagel reluctantly swaps her comfortable Viennese sofa for a plane ticket to the USA. In Iowa, she is to teach creative writing at a small college in the middle of nowhere. In this small town of 8,000 inhabitants, there is nothing but endless cornfields. She is accompanied for the first time by music legend Christiane Rösinger, and together they set out to explore the nothingness. They find bad food, overweight, friendly locals, vultures and an old imperial and royal nostalgic. Simply “that special combination of misery, wasteland, fast food and sunsets behind petrol stations.” Stefanie Sargnagel's view of the USA is as unique as her writing; uncompromising, sarcastic and ruthlessly honest, she reports in her typical sound about the American wasteland of the Midwest and about the vital necessity of friendships.