Heine reading: Meet Mathilde on the Day of Libraries

Kassel University Library and Kassel City Library invite you to a Heine reading in the campus library on October 24th - the nationwide Day of Libraries:
Together with the Kassel City Library, the Kassel University Library, State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel are organizing this year's Day of Libraries and have invited the drama group around Bernd P. R. Winter with the reading "Mathilde - A Life around Heinrich Heine" to the Campus Library on Holländischer Platz.

At the center of the reading, Kassel actors Aljoscha Langel, Ayana Goldstein and reciter Bernd P. R. Winter will present the book "Mathilde - Ein Leben um Heinrich Heine" by author Walther Victors. Mathilde is brought to life from poems and quotations by Heinrich Heine and from documents and statements by contemporaries.

In 1834, Heine met the fun-loving 21-year-old Crescentia Eugenie Mirat, and two years later he was living with his "Mathilde". "It is to be praised as Mathilde's main merit", declared Heine, "that she does not know the slightest thing about German literature and has not read a word about me or my friends and enemies". Victor's intention was to emphasize the feminine in particular and to shed light on the emancipation issues of the time.

With their nuanced reading, sometimes comical, sometimes serious, sometimes romantic, the acting group aims to turn Heine's life, work and legacy alongside his wife Mathilde into a very entertaining listening experience.

Gunther Fuhr accompanies the program on the bandoneon with musical poetry, conciseness and clarity of sound.
For the university library, this evening event is also a "welcome to the winter semester". And, as in previous years, the Kassel City Library is also giving its readers a present: On 24.10.2022, no fee will be charged when a reader card is issued.

Admission is free