Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt - „Die Sonne scheint für immer. Für die Wolken kann ich nichts.“ // Lesung

In the organizer's words:

The Harbour Front Literature Festival is looking forward to a special evening with Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt - entertaining, clever and touching. With a keen sense for nuances, the presenter, producer and bestselling author talks about the moments that shape a life - and about the woman who shaped him like no other: his grandmother. In his new book, he combines memory and storytelling, contemporary history and personal anecdotes. An evening full of warmth, charm and quiet grandeur - borne by the attitude of a generation that experiences a lot but complains little.

About the book "The sun always shines. I can't help the clouds."

A life in the fast lane, rebellious, non-conformist, full of joie de vivre and incredibly strong and courageous: this is how Hubertus Meyer-Burkhardt remembers his beloved grandmother, who shaped him like no other person. How did she deal with the world that shattered twice before her eyes? What did she give her grandson to take with him on his journey through life? And wouldn't it be wonderful if we had more people of her caliber in this day and age? People with an unconditional love of life, with wit, a spirit of contradiction and character. In autobiographical episodes, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt tells the story of a woman who was ahead of her time: a tender declaration of love and a search for traces of the driving forces behind her own life.

About the author:

Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt stepped onto the stage of the local municipal theater at the age of 15. Since then, he knew that he wanted to do "something with entertainment" and attended the University of Television and Film. As a TV producer, he won numerous awards, spent years on the board of Axel Springer AG and ProSieben-Sat.1 and held a professorship at the Hamburg Media School. He is also known to an audience of millions as the host of over 1,000 broadcasts of the "NDR Talk Show". Most recently, his SPIEGEL bestseller "Die ganze Scheiße mit der Zeit: Meine Entdeckung des Jetzt" (2021) was published.