Axel Hacke Reads and Tells

Over many decades, Hacke has written several thousand columns - mainly for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin" - as well as more than thirty books. So what does he do now? He tells us how he did it. And he reads aloud.

Since he can't read everything (certainly not in a single evening), he reads only the best - or rather, the very best, the funniest, the most thought-provoking, the wisest, the most cheerful. You could say: his entire life as an author has been preparation for this one evening - yes, exactly: the best evening, no, the very best.

Axel Hacke lives and works as a writer in Munich. He is best known for his column "Das Beste aus aller Welt", published every Friday in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" magazine for decades. His books are bestsellers. His work has been recognised with, among others, the Joseph Roth Prize, two Egon Erwin Kisch Prizes, the Theodor Wolff Prize, and most recently the Ben Witter Prize in 2019.