„Achilles in Taormina“- Premierenlesung des Hemingway-Romans & Gespräch mit Michael Kleeberg

In the organizer's words:

Moderation: Wolfgang Stock

An exciting game with reality and fiction:

What makes a boy a man? What makes a man a writer? And what makes a writer the icon of an entire century? These are the questions that drive the hero of the novel "In Search of Hemingway's Last Secret". His name is Michael Kleeberg.

Hemingway was a daredevil, charmer and legend - a revolutionary of style. But behind the cult author was a driven man who constantly had to prove himself. Hemingway demanded the very last from himself and others. Anyone who came close to him was in danger of being infected by his legend - including the narrator of this novel.

With a clever autofictional twist, author Kleeberg follows in the footsteps of his larger-than-life colleague, who achieved cult status worldwide as a master storyteller, bon vivant and adventurer. With the intention, no: in the obsession, of transforming himself into his idol, he creates his own identity through fabulous reinvention. And gets very close to Hemingway's secret in the process.

Michael Kleeberg is a freelance writer and translator based in Berlin. He was recently awarded the prize of the International Hermann Hesse Society for his work.

Wolfgang Stock, journalist, chief editor and above all Hemingway biographer, talks to Michael Kleeberg about his new novel.