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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.

Italy is the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. That's why the October reading time features Italian literature. The actor Antonio Manzini has made a name for himself in his home country, but also in Germany, as a crime writer with stories about the unconventional investigator Rocco Schavione. In 2015, Manzini wrote »Spitzentitel«, a tragicomic satire about the literary world, translated into German by Antje Peter: A famous writer has finished a new novel, but his publishing house has since been swallowed up by a large corporation, and now changes suitable for the public are needed. 

To accompany the premiere of »The Talented Mr Ripley«, Lesezeit is presenting Patricia Highsmith's first novel,
»Two Strangers on a Train« from 1950, whose film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock made the author world-famous overnight. This novel has elements that are very similar to »Ripley«: the psychogram of a relationship between two men caught between friendship and aversion, with elements of suspense. A mind game about the perfect crime during a train journey from New York to Texas turns bitterly serious.

Hans Fleischmann reads.

In cooperation with the Stadtbücherei Heidelberg