Heine Reading: Meet Mathilde on Library Day

Kassel University Library and Kassel City Library invite you to a Heine reading at the Campus Library on October 24 - Germany's Library Day:
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 Library Day and have invited the acting group led by Bernd P. R. Winter to the Campus Library on Holländischer Platz with the reading "Mathilde - A Life About Heinrich Heine."

In the center of the reading the Kasseler actor:inside Aljoscha Langel, Ayana Goldstein and the reciter Bernd P. R. Winter present the book "Mathilde - a life around Heinrich Heine" of the author Walther Victors. From poems and quotations of Heinrich Heine and from documents and statements of contemporaries Mathilde is brought to life.

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

With their nuanced reading, sometimes comical, sometimes serious, sometimes romantic, the acting group wants to make the life and work and the legacy of Heine alongside his wife Mathilde a listening experience in a very entertaining way.

On the bandoneon, Gunther Fuhr accompanies the audience through the program with musical poetry, conciseness and transparency 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 making a gift to its readers: On 24.10.2022, no fee will be charged when a reader:inside card is issued.

Admission is free