Essen (dpa/lnw) - The international literature festival Lit.Ruhr starts its 6th edition this Wednesday (7.30 p.m.) with a reading by actor and writer Joachim Meyerhoff in Essen's Lichtburg. Parallel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, numerous well-known authors will be presenting themselves at various venues in Bochum, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Oberhausen for five days until next Sunday.
Meyerhoff is one of the most prominent German actors and is part of the ensemble of the renowned Schaubühne Berlin. He is also regarded as a gifted author who wrote himself into the hearts of readers with his novels. In "All Dead Fly Up: America" he talks about the exchange year in Laramie (USA), about growing up on the premises of a psychiatric clinic in "When will it finally be like it never was". Meyerhoff also stormed the bestseller lists with the adversities of acting training ("Oh, this gap, this terrible gap") or the novels "The Togetherness of the Loners" and "Hamster in the rear river area". In Essen he reads new, as yet unpublished texts.
Whether actress Katja Riemann, racism critic Tupoka Ogette, climate activist Luisa Neubauer or ex-soccer player Neven Subotic - with around 60 events, viewers and listeners can expect numerous highlights of the book autumn. A large children's and youth program as well as themed evenings round off the Lit.Ruhr 2022.
The guests of the literature festival also include the actresses Claudia Michelsen and Annette Frier as well as Matthias Brandt, journalists and writers such as Dunja Hayali, Elke Heidenreich, Cordula Stratmann, Knut Elstermann, Christoph Biermann, Jörg Thadeusz and cabaret artist Frank Goosen. Successful children's book author Paul Maar brings his new Sams adventure with him. He reads, rhymes, tells stories and draws - all in the year of his 85th birthday.
