Activities for Children
In analog and digital events, we want to awaken a desire for literature and books and start a conversation about children's and young people's literature with a young…
Unbearable heat, violent hurricanes and deadly epidemics have made the earth almost uninhabitable in the year 2059. 15-year-old Mariana is safe from all this in her parents' house in Munich - but she…
After a break of three-year, we are happy to continue the series "Books of Childhood", in which personalities from public life, culture, society and politics talk about early reading experiences and…
Fanny Hensel died unexpectedly of a stroke in May 1847. Her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was so devastated by her death that he retreated to the Swiss mountains: "Up to now I have not been…
Wind can strike many keys: sometimes purring softly, sometimes roaring loudly, sometimes whistling an angry tune, sometimes blowing gently. Musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra use…
Erich Kästner
The writer Erich Kästner was a close companion of Jella Lepman. They met in Munich in the publishing rooms of the Neue Zeitung and the magazine Heute. Erich Kästner was senior editor…