The happiness of reading, the Munich writer Eva Gesine Baur knows it. She writes: “My second home doesn’t cost me anything, is only a few minutes by bike from our apartment, has the largest flight of stairs in a Munich stairwell, makes me wide awake and comforts me Bavarian State Library helps when the end of truth is proclaimed and the AfD’s twenty percent triumph is described as not alarming. Every book can change the world: the world of those who read or wrote it. My Munich is currently changed. I see places and objects and events that I haven’t seen or seen in this way before. Two women are to blame for this: Maria Callas and Andrea Manga Bell, mistress of Joseph Roth. I have spent the last few years reading, researching and writing with both of them. Almost everyone knows one, almost nobody knows the other. Both had the courage to take risks. They didn’t babble about authenticity, they were just radically themselves.” And that’s probably true of this author, too. Here are her tips of the week.
Munich: culture and leisure tips from Eva Gesine Baur – Munich
