Nobel Prize-Winning Author Olga Tokarczuk

On the Silesian Magic Mountain - read by Johann von Bülow

What an honor: Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk, laureate for 2018, comes to Bad Mergentheim! She brings her latest novel Empusja, which aptly takes place in a spa town.

This gripping, spirited story unfolds in 1913 in a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients high in the mountains - but not in Davos. This "Magic Mountain" lies in Lower Silesia. Olga Tokarczuk generously and with keen wit draws from Thomas Mann's classic. A young student with tuberculosis from Lviv arrives and checks into a gentlemen's guesthouse, where they love to discourse and philosophize in grandiose fashion. Especially about troublesome women. But the women have long since begun their own form of revenge... "Wildly brilliant, wildly funny, wildly well written." (FAZ)

True reading pleasure - and great literature! Beatrice Faßbender moderates, translator Lisa Palmes provides interpretation, and acclaimed actor Johann von Bülow reads.

In cooperation with the Bad Mergentheim Spa Administration and with kind support from Lions Club Bad Mergentheim, the Polish Institute Düsseldorf, and the Kulturwerk Schlesien Foundation.