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Reading Time

Stadtbücherei

Once a month, ensemble members of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg read at the Stadtbücherei, offering an exciting literary addition to our programme with free admission.

For his third production in Heidelberg, entitled »On the Other Side of the Moon«, director Marcel Kohler explores the life and work of a very special artist: Hilde Domin. Drawing on her literary artistry, the director creates a series of staged vignettes, a panorama of leaving and staying, of the poetry in everyday things, and of a life »among acrobats and birds«. 

Forced into exile by the Nazis, Hilde Domin found her home in words. She lived initially in Italy and fled to the Dominican Republic in 1939. 

In the Reading time programme, Katharina Ley presents three early prose works from Hilde Domin’s »Antillengeschichten« (Antilles Stories), written in the 1940s on the island after which she named herself. This phase of her literary career reveals a previously unknown facet of Domin as a storyteller during her time in exile. In these stories, precise and perceptive descriptions of her experiences are combined with great curiosity and openness towards the unknown.

Katharina Ley

Katharina Ley reads »Antillengeschichten« by Hilde Domin

As part of the Schlossfestspiele, Philipp Löhle has adapted »Frankenstein« for the Dicker Turm. To complement this, Lesezeit presents the original: Mary Shelley’s epoch-making novel, which she wrote at the age of 20 and initially published anonymously. »Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus« became one of the most influential works in world literature. It is read by a new member of the theatre ensemble: Helene Krüger.

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Helene Krüger

Helene Krüger reads »Frankenstein« by Mary Shelley (in German)

Cyrano de Bergerac is not only the title character of Edmond Rostand’s romantic comedy, which is taking the castle courtyard by storm this year as part of the Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele. Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–55) was also an exceptionally progressive Baroque poet who, for example, anticipated a modern world view in his »Reise zum Mond«. Thorsten Hierse presents the work in the Reading time.

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Thorsten Hierse

Thorsten Hierse reads from »Die Reise zum Mond« by Cyrano de Bergerac
In cooperation with the Stadtbücherei Heidelberg
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