As part of the Bremen literature festival "Bremen liest!", author Johann-Günther König will be reading from his non-fiction book "Diese Stadt ist echt, und echt ist selten".
"Here I don't count for anything, and would like to count for something. Because this city is
real, and real is rare," Joachim Ringelnatz praised the Hanseatic city of Bremen in the 1920s.
the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Heinrich Heine once sat "warm and
quiet in the good Ratskeller in Bremen" and paid tribute to it in a
poem. Wilhelm Hauff wrote his humorous "Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller
in the Bremen Ratskeller". The Bremen author Johann-Günther König lets
authors to have their say in this vivid literary history
authors who have honored or criticized Bremen and Bremerhaven in literature.
or criticized them.
Johann-Günther König, born in Bremen in 1952, initially studied social pedagogy.
social pedagogy. His first literary works appeared from the mid-1970s.
literary works appeared. König now lives and works as a freelance
author in Bremen and Mecklenburg. His areas of work
are political economy, mobility, cultural history, biographies,
Bremensien and translations from English.
Further information can be found at www.bremenliest.de
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