Reading: "We suffer from too much...". A literary evening on Theodor Schultze-Jasmer

Tedje. Almost everyone called him that - friends, neighbours, summer visitors. After studying at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, this Saxon-born artist moved to Prerow in 1921. His home, the Eschenhaus at Grünen Strasse 8, still stands. So do many other traces of that era, captured by Theodor Schultze-Jasmer - known as the painter of the "Windflüchter" - with his camera in almost any weather.

Kristine von Soden draws on her research in the archive of the Saxon State Library, where Schultze-Jasmer's estate is held, to paint an affectionate portrait of this passionate beach wanderer. The evening is peppered with lively anecdotes - including stories of his friendship with the Bunte Stube in Ahrenshoop, which in those days felt as far from Prerow as the other side of the world. Tedje's view of life has lost none of its relevance. "Far too much is poured over us and stuffed into us", he wrote in 1950. He felt the Baltic Sea was the "home of his soul": "Rarely do I voluntarily head for any other landscape. People everywhere may find that one-sided - let them."