Tag: Literature in Munich
Munich in books by Gerhard Köpf: A city full of tricksters and show-offs
In his volume of short stories “The Prompter” and the novel “Adenauer’s Clock”, the writer Gerhard Köpf devotes himself to loners and failures – and also tells a lot about…
Anti-Semitism: Reading series with texts by Jewish artists – Munich
Writing and art are often seen as ways to cope with grief. But what if the causes of the pain are a past terrorist attack, an ongoing war and an…
Munich: The new series “Lost in Music” combines literature, music and party. – Munich
There is the theory that music and poetry have the same origin. Since the Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan, it has also been proven that a song lyric can be…
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…