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…
Lucia means "the shining one", "the radiant one". She lived in Sicily at the end of the 3rd century and helped persecuted people and fugitives who sought refuge from their persecutors in caves and…