Cultural series at Hotel Morgenland

Steffen Schroeder

THE ETERNAL DANCE

Anita Berber, icon and myth of the 1920s – her exciting life as a novel

@ www.rowohlt.de

Photo Anne Heinlein Rowohlt

Jakob Hein

A bit of weed, an ingenious coup and the miracle of Bavaria!

“How Grisha almost triggered world peace with a daring idea,

Jakob Hein’s wonderfully wacky novel about a billion-dollar coup – with one of the most relaxed heroes in literature.
His boss would never have dreamed that Grischa, of all people, this shy assistant to the planning commission, would be prone to subversion and come up with an – admittedly – rather ingenious plan to get their ailing store a new, surprisingly good source of finance. Where ‘store’ in this case stands for an entire country.

Perhaps it was because Grischa has a somewhat idiosyncratic taste in movies, in which American drug mafia thrillers intersect with socialist heroic epics? …..

@ Kiepenheuer & Witsch /www.kiwi-verlag.de

Photo: Susanne Schleyer

Volker Kutscher

The grand finale of the crime series about Gereon Rath
The Rath family is heading for a dramatic ending: after returning from the USA, Gereon has gone into hiding in Rhöndorf near Bonn and makes his way to Berlin to help Charly. She has to free Hannah Singer from the Wittenau sanatoriums and defend Fritze, who is suspected of murder. Hatred of the Jews grows and the Reichspogromnacht culminates in a development that Charly had foreseen and Gereon had long denied.

This makes it clear to both of them that life in Germany is no longer possible, resistance is necessary. Do they have a future together and where would it lie? With his usual high level of suspense, historical depth and psychological characterization, Volker Kutscher brings his successful series to a harrowing conclusion.

@ www.piper.de

Photo: Andreas Chudowski

Florian Illies

presented his book, Magic of Silence on March 04, 2024 at 7:30 pm in the Hotel Morgenland.

No German painter triggers such emotions as Caspar David FriedrichHis evening skies are still icons of longing today, he inspired Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and Walt Disney’s “Bambi” – but Goethe was so enraged by the enigmatic melancholy of his paintings that he wanted to smash them on the edge of a table.
In his large-scale journey through time, Florian Illies tells the story of Friedrich’s paintings for the first time: countless of his most beautiful paintings were burnt, first in his birthplace and then during the Second World War, while others, such as the “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen”, emerge from the mists of history a hundred years after Friedrich’s death. Illies tells how Friedrich’s paintings ended up at the Russian Tsar’s court, between the winter tires in a Mafia car repair shop and in the kitchen of a Hessian council apartment. As revered by Hitler as he was by Heinrich von Kleist, as hated by Stalin as he was by the ’68ers – the example of Friedrich makes 250 years of German history visible.

(www.fischerverlage.de)

Photo: Mathias Bothor

Maxim Leo

presented his novel, which was published in March, on May 23, 2024.

“We will be young”

before.

Their lives are thrown off course when the participants in a drug trial at Berlin’s Charité hospital suddenly become younger. Jakob has just met his first love and suddenly loses all desire. Jenny has wanted a child for many years in vain and suddenly becomes pregnant. Wenger, a seriously ill real estate patriarch, bids farewell to the world with a lavish party, only to blossom again shortly afterwards – much to the despair of his heirs. And Verena, the two-time Olympic 100-meter freestyle champion, has long since put her professional days behind her when she surprisingly sets new records at an exhibition match between ex-stars. When the public finds out about her rejuvenation, events come thick and fast.

An incredibly clear-sighted novel that follows its protagonists through the craziest year of their lives, full of humor and warmth.

And which, as if in passing, poses the major ethical and social questions that will arise if the research into the biological rejuvenation of humans, which is running at full speed worldwide, is successful.

Photo: Peter Rigaud

Jürgen Trittin

On September 24, former member of the Bundestag Jürgen Trittin was our guest at Hotel Morgenland to present his new book.“EVERYTHING MUST REMAIN DIFFERENT”

As a post-war child, Green politician Jürgen Trittin has been a witness and protagonist of Germany’s political history since the early 1970s. As a student and squatter, he experienced the social-liberal years, helped build up the Greens during the Kohl government, was a state minister and paved the way for Green participation in the federal government in 1998 and again in 2021. He now takes stock along political milestones. His autobiographical reflections are more than just personal and committed testimonies – they are a piece of contemporary history.

@ www.droemer-knaur.de

@ Photo-AG Gymnasium Melle

Its ….

Women’s Stories

…. are legendary. On September 10, 2019 inspired

Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt

his audience at the Hotel Morgenland!

As the host of one of the most successful talk shows on television, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt has made the following experience: women tend to become anarchic in old age, men tend to become more meaningful in old age.
What remains of the person without the function? A question that women face with pleasure, men with concern. Women break up when life doesn’t keep the date, men break in. If Mother Earth had a world heritage to award, it would be women. These women are – on behalf of all the others: Doris Dörrie, Veronica Ferres, Elke Heidenreich, Leslie Malton, Ina Müller, Ulrike Murmann, Erika Pluhar, Marianne Sägebrecht, Barbara Schöneberger and Christine Westermann.
Meyer-Burckhardt’s women’s stories collected in this highly entertaining book are headlined by one sentence: it comes from Barbara Schöneberger: “I recommend living.”

His autobiography

One life is too little

provided

Gregor Gysi

to our numerous audience on October 29, 2019.

Gregor Gysi shaped left-wing thinking and became one of its most important protagonists. Here he tells of his many lives: as a family man, lawyer, politician, author and presenter. His autobiography is a history book that brings the shocks and extremes, the designs and disappointments of the 20th century to life in a very personal way.

“It’s amazing what has to happen for your own life to emerge at some point.” Gregor Gysi