The days are getting longer again. The Literary Society has put together an exciting and stimulating programme for all those who want to clear their heads despite the cold, snow and April weather.

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On 24 January, television presenter Caro Matzko will be talking about mental crises and health. A few days before the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel will present his book "The Curse of Empire", which deals with Russia and its neighbouring countries.

 

And on 6 March, Prof. Ernst Peter Fischer will catch up on his exciting lecture on great moments in physics, which was already planned for September 2023. On 20 March, Dinçer Güçyeter will read from his award-winning novel 'Our Fairytale Germany' - an entertaining literary reappraisal of the clash of different cultures.

 

In April, we will be focussing twice on the crisis in the Middle East. On 10 February, Dr. Susanne Glass, head of the foreign desk at Bayerischer Rundfunk, will report on the background to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. A week later, the German-Palestinian writer Joana Osman will tell the story of her family from Jaffa in her biographical novel "Where the Ghosts Dance".

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And on 24 April, Bachmann Prize winner Birgit Birnbacher will pose questions about the meaningfulness of work in her book 'Wovon wir leben'. We close the spring season on 15 May with a reading from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's letters by the well-known actor Gerd Anthoff. The Amadis Quartet will play several movements from the composer's string quartets.