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Elke Heidenreich is the folk educator in the big garden of our literary criticism. No one so poignantly promotes the value of reading itself. Enthusiasm and connoisseurship always serve to liberate oneself, first to read, then, spurred on by it, to feel and think. She told her life as the story of her reading (“Here goes this way”, Eisele-Verlag). Not surprisingly, it was a book dedicated to women, since it is well known that it is primarily female readers who keep our contemporary literature going.
