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When are we supposed to properly ponder all the questions that life throws at us? As soon as you think you are reaching a conclusion, the next question appears. Cordula Stratmann attempts it anyway.… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Cordula Stratmann & Michel Abdollahi on life’s big questions
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- Date: Mon. 07 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Which philosophy can still guide us today? On the trail of Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault and Paul K. Feyerabend, Geister der Gegenwart [“Ghosts of the Present”] is a captivating sto… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Wolfram Eilenberger on the daring of independent thinkers
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- Date: Mon. 07 October 2024
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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The pandemic may be over, but we definitely still need to process what happened. Since the virus has become less dangerous, there is waning interest in critically examining the role of politics,… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 08 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
She wrote her first novels secretly, at night, while working as a journalist. Her thrillers “The Trap” and “The Shadow” made Melanie Raabe one of the most successful and unique voices in this genre. Her lat… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The Longest Sleep – With Melanie Raabe
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- Date: Tue. 08 October 2024
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
What is left when you are no longer the person you were for your entire life? Arno Geiger’s new novel, The Journey to Laredo, explores life’s big questions: Karl lives in seclusion in a remote mon… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Arno Geiger celebrates what truly matters in life
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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- Assistance dogs welcome Available
The pandemic is over but the virus remains. For three years, we lived through an unprecedented situation – with uncertainty, sensible and senseless measures, warnings, admonitions and exaggerations. I… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Author Navid Kermani, recipient of The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, is one of the most important intellectual voices of his generation and an astute observer of our present day. Now, he has… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
For years, Jagoda Marinić has been fighting for a more diverse society. In Sanfte Radikalität [“Gentle Radicalism”], she describes how it became possible to make her ideas a reality. Her 2013 novel Resta… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
“Be aware: This book could change your attitude towards death,” says presenter Bettina Böttinger about Husch Josten’s new novel The Concurrency of Things. Restaurateur Jean Tobelmann has an eccentric regula… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The Concurrency of Things – with Husch Josten & Bettina Böttinger
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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In 1985, violinist Béla Tambrea makes a difficult decision: He does not return to his homeland, Romania, following a concert tour. Two years later, shortly before the violent overthrow of the … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Fatherlands – Sabin Tambrea traces the roots of his family
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
“He shows once again that he is great not only on screen but also as an author,” wrote the newspaper Abendzeitung, when “The Boy Needs to Get Some Fresh Air” was published. Nowadays, Hape Kerkeling’s career as… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Give Me Some Time – Hape Kerkeling and his chronicle of events
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Donna Leon is an absolute legend in the crime fiction genre and her Brunetti novels have made her famous worldwide. In A Refiner’s Fire, her Venetian Commissario solves his 33rd case: Glass shards a… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event A Refiner’s Fire – with Donna Leon & Annett Renneberg
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- englisch
- deutsch
Caroline Peters is at home on the most prestigious stages of German-language theater. In her role as obstinate police inspector Sophie Haas in the series “Homicide Hills”, she became a fan favorite. Wit… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Another Life – with Caroline Peters
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
In The Hunter, masterful suspense author Tana French returns to rural Ireland, in the middle of a scorchingly hot summer: Farmers are nervous and the crops are under threat, when a local who moved… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Tana French – The Hunter. With Ulrich Noethen
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- English
- German
With his novel “The Midnight Library”, Matt Haig excited millions of fans worldwide. Annette Frier brilliantly read the German version of the audiobook, making even more people happy. Now, Haig has rel… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Matt Haig & Annette Frier on The Life Impossible
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- Date: Sat. 19 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Schauspiel Köln im DEPOT 1
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- English
- German
German entertainer Thomas Gottschalk is in a class of his own. Audiences loved him for his uncensored talk and his refreshing repartee – but times have changed. What used to get laughs can now cause o… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Unfiltered – with Thomas Gottschalk
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- Date: Sat. 26 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
He is one of the world’s most influential chefs and has written nine cookbooks, all of which became best sellers. Following his groundbreaking successes “Simple” and “Flavour”, this autumn Yotam Ottolengh… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Yotam Ottolenghi: The Comfort Tour.
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- Date: Tue. 05 November 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Confexhall
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- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- Englisch
1263: Jacop the Fox is in trouble – big time. Just when his fate seemed to have taken a promising turn. But once again he has to run, fight and swim for his life, chased by ghosts of the past, S… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Heroes – Frank Schätzing presents his new great medieval novel
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- Date: Fri. 08 November 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: E-Werk
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Campino, the legendary lead singer of the band Die Toten Hosen, recently switched to a different kind of stage: In spring 2024, the punk was suddenly at the front of the lecture hall. He gave two… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 12 November 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
London, summer of 1914: 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – clever, bored and reckless – is engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith. As Asquith reluctantly leads the cou… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Precipice – With Robert Harris & Anneke Kim Sarnau
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- Date: Sun. 17 November 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- English
- German
Christmas stories, poems and anecdotes that will warm your heart and bring a twinkle to your eye. The Thalbach women are expert story-tellers and their repertoire is as varied as are the ways of… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 11 December 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Weihnachtsgeschichten, Weihnachtsgedichte und Schwänke, die das Herz erwärmen und die Augen zum Leuchten bringen. Die Thalbach-Frauen sind wahre Expertinnen im Geschichtenerzählen, und ihr Repertoire is… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 11 December 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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Accessibility
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
