Hamburg, Germany
The Altonaer Theater is a privately run spoken-theatre house in the Hamburg district of Altona, founded in 1895. Its programme centres on accessible, popular drama - comedies, family shows and literary adaptations - drawing a broad local audience. The historic building seats around 500 and has been one of Hamburg's most continuously active neighbourhood theatres for well over a century.
An evening of nocturnal poetry and prose - from Novalis to Kaleko - woven together with Bach's Goldberg Variations. Pianist Markus Becker and actor Devid Striesow create a literary and musical portrait of the night.
Bestselling crime author Charlotte Link and former Kripo chief Jürgen Schmidt discuss where thriller fiction and police reality part ways, on the occasion of her new book "Kalte Tage". Moderated by Giuseppe Di Grazia of "stern".
Christoph Kramer, a former footballer and World Cup winner, discusses his second novel "Cloud-Touching Point" - a story about pivotal moments and new beginnings.
Jürgen von der Lippe performs "Sextextsextett", a comedy reading show, at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg.