Michael Quast is a Frankfurt-based actor and director, co-founder of the Volkstheater Frankfurt. He has long championed the city's cultural heritage through cabaret, literary readings and original productions. In his solo programme he brings to life the poems and satirical stories of Friedrich Stoltze, a 19th-century poet who wrote in the Frankfurt dialect.
A literary evening tracing the life of forgotten Frankfurt poet and improviser Maximilian Leopold Langenschwarz - a Jewish emigrant whose story ends, unresolved, in New York in 1867.
A grand celebration of Hessian dialect with world hits reimagined in the local language. Ticket raffle, announcement of the word of the year, and performances by renowned local artists.
Michael Quast performs an evening of poetry and prose by 19th-century Frankfurt satirist Friedrich Stoltze, whose weekly "Frankfurter Latern" was notorious for its anti-Prussian wit. The show runs about 2 hours with an interval.