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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.

To coincide with the performance of »The Emperor's New Clothes – Moth Time« at the Schlossfestspiele, Simon Mazouri presents a personal selection from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales during reading time. ‘Weird’ is in Hans Christian Andersen's on closer inspection, almost everything in Hans Christian Andersen's writings is ‘weird’: tantalising and sinister, ambiguous and dubious, pathetic and witty, oscillating between beguiling sensuality and brittle abstraction, biting sharpness and gentle irony. And understandable understandable all over the world: »Life is the most beautiful fairy tale, because we ourselves appear in it.«

In connection with the staging of Han Kang's novel »The Vegetarian« in the Alte Chirurgie, Lesezeit is presenting another book by the South Korean Nobel Prize winner for literature. »Weiß« is a poetic text about grief and resistance, which is considered Han Kang's literary masterpiece alongside »The Vegetarian«.

In October, Lesezeit presents literature from the guest country of the Frankfurt Book Fair. This year's guest of honour is the Philippines. The Filipino writer, doctor and freedom fighter José Rizal (1861-96) studied ophthalmology in Heidelberg and translated Schiller's »Wilhelm Tell« into his native language. Rizal's novel »Noli me tangere« criticises the lawless abuse of power by the Spanish colonial regime in the Philippines. It will be published in a new German translation at the book fair. Nele Christoph, a new member of the theatre ensemble, will be reading.

In cooperation with the Stadtbücherei Heidelberg