Über Grenzen & Hoch.Hinaus - a reading with Margot Flügel-Anhalt

What if the right moment for the great adventure wasn't sometime in the past - but right now?
Margot Flügel-Anhalt makes exactly that case: at 64, she gets on a motorbike for the first time and simply rides off. Alone, across Central Asia, along the Pamir Highway, through countries that most people know only as names on a map. The result is her remarkable book "Über Grenzen" - a journey that breaks far more than just geographical boundaries.

And she doesn't stop there.

Six years later, at nearly 70, she sets off again: in a garishly spray-painted old Lada, with a bright-red Hilleberg tent and a Therm-a-Rest mat rated for sub-zero temperatures. 22,000 kilometres to the highest mountains on earth, to the legendary Nanga Parbat. Encounters, dramatic moments and a breathtaking journey that makes you feel, all at once, how precious it is to be alive.

On this special evening Margot Flügel-Anhalt presents both books, sharing stories from the road - about courage, freedom, doubt and the sheer joy of setting out.

An evening for anyone who dreams of travel - and for anyone who needs reminding that it is never too late to aim high.

A signing session follows the reading.