Mariana Leky - Kummer aller Art

Mariana Leky, recipient of the Cuxhaven Joachim Ringelnatz Prize 2025 and a widely celebrated author of quiet, perceptive fiction, comes to Cuxhaven on Sunday, 16 August 2026 at 18:00 to read from her book "Kummer aller Art" at Schloss Ritzebüttel. The evening will be a conversation with the audience about life's big and small upheavals, about consolation, coincidence, and the peculiar beauty of human encounters. The evening will be hosted by Jens J. Potschka.

Mariana Leky, known for her bestselling novel "Was man von hier aus sehen kann", has won readers well beyond the German-speaking world with her delicate humour, poetic language, and a distinctive eye for the ordinary. In "Kummer aller Art" she brings together stories of loss and hope, quiet melancholy and unexpected lightness - precise, warm-hearted, and gently intense.