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 combining texts about night from Novalis to Kaleko with Bach's Goldberg Variations performed by pianist Markus Becker and actor Devid Striesow.
Thriller author Charlotte Link and former criminal investigations chief Jürgen Schmidt debate how much reality a thriller actually needs - live on stage at the Altonaer Theater, to mark the release of her new novel "Kalte Tage". Moderated by Giuseppe Di Grazia of "stern".
Christoph Kramer, the 2014 World Cup winner, discusses his second novel "Wolkenberührpunkt" - a story about a man at a crossroads and a mysterious encounter that changes everything.
Jürgen von der Lippe performs "Sextextsextett", a comedy reading show, at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg.