The Graefelfing Literary Society is starting the first half of 2023 with eight well-known personalities from culture and society. The program includes readings with discussions and talks. The pair of authors Julian Nida-Rümelin and Nathalie Weidenfeld will start off by philosophizing about gender relations on Tuesday, January 24th. Things get political with the visit of the journalist, author and Iran expert Natalie Amiri, who will speak on Wednesday, February 15, about power and powerlessness in Iran. From the Middle East it goes back to the Bavarian homeland. The actress Michaela May will read from her autobiographical book “Retrospective Life” on Wednesday, March 1st. May worked under the direction of Helmut Dietl and that’s what Wednesday, March 8 is all about. The journalist, author and film expert Claudius Seidl published a biography of the filmmaker in autumn 2022.
Anyone who appreciates Thomas Mann will get their money’s worth on Thursday, March 16th. The literary scholar Dieter Borchmeyer has for the first time comprehensively interpreted Mann’s complete works and is presenting it to the public. The author Lena Gorelik, who was born in Saint Petersburg and lives in Munich, will come to the Bürgerhaus for the second time. On Wednesday, March 29, she will present her autobiographical novel “Who we are”. In the interim district of the community library on Stefanusstraße, visitors will learn from Antonia Grunenberg “why it’s worth fighting for freedom,” was the title of the evening on Wednesday, April 26. At the end of the first half of the year it will be entertaining: The Scottish author Martin Walker comes to the break hall of the Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium on Monday, May 15th, with his 15th criminal case involving the French village policeman “Bruno – Chef de Police”.
The events begin at 8 p.m. in the community center at Bahnhofspatz 1, with the exception of the last two dates. Advance ticket sales and reservations can be made two weeks before the event at the Kohler bookstore in Gräfelfing. Admission is free for members, pupils and students, otherwise there are ten euros.