Tag: Literature in Munich
The Forgotten Women of the Revolution – Munich
Cornelia Naumann’s novel “Fräulein Prolet” tells of the turbulent times between 1918 and the Hitler Putsch in Munich in 1923 – and is reminiscent of unknown women’s rights activists and…
Gretel Mayer’s crime novel “Schwabing 62” about the Schwabing riots – Munich
Berenike von Rahnstedt is an independent woman – artist, writer and single mother. She knows God and the world and moves with ease through the Munich art scene of the…
Munich: Exciting readings in April – Munich
Sometimes one sentence is enough to make you fall in love with a book. In the case of Eleanor Catton’s novel “The Forest”, it could be this with which the…
Alex Capus reads from his book “The Little House on the Sonnenhang” – Munich
“During the day the cicadas sang, at night the fireflies lit up all over the sunny slope” – Italy in the late 1990s, a remote stone house in the middle…
Pun Prize for Dana von Suffrin – Munich
Dana von Suffrin received this year’s Bayern 2-Wordspiele Prize. At the end of the three-day International Word Games Festival for young literature, the Munich writer was honored on Friday at…
Five for Munich: Generational conversation and guest performance – Munich
Remember There are only a few survivors of National Socialism who can personally report on that terrible time. What should remembrance work look like so that future generations also learn…
Reopening of the children’s library in Blutenburg – Munich
A lot of perseverance was necessary, but it was worth it: Since the youth library moved into Blutenburg Castle, its circulation point, the children’s library in the former stables, had…
Family, a source of joy? What young authors write about it – Munich
Many new novels by young authors revolve around the theme of family. At the Pun Festival in Munich’s Muffatwerk, Dana von Suffrin, Slata Roschal, Matthias Jügler and Laura Lichtblau, among…
Of mothers and daughters: the new novel by Franziska Gänsler – Munich
A child disappears, searching for clues on the beach, seagulls attacking people – why the Augsburg author Franziska Gänsler also impresses with her second novel. A seagull attacking a surfer.…
Portrait of the German-Nigerian author Efua Traoré, who lives in Munich
City and country, reality and myth, Africa and Europe: the German-Nigerian author Efua Traoré is a mediator between the worlds – now, after England, Nigeria, France and the USA, her…