Lesung „Ich liebe es den Sternen zuzuhören!"

In the organizer's words:

Poet, pilot and philosopher - A tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the poet's 125th birthday
Spoken by Susanne Schwan, musically illustrated by Simon Bellett.
Life artist, pioneer, heartbreaker, philanthropist and poet - Count Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry, born on June 29, 1900 in Lyon, was as passionate a bon vivant as he was an aviator and storyteller. He wrote his first story at the age of ten: "I was born in a hat factory"; at 12, he decided to become a pilot. After grammar school, the eternally "clammy" Graf, who grew up fatherless and with three sisters, juggled between art studies, odd jobs - including as an unsuccessful truck salesman - and the military, and wrote his first novel. A literary crash landing - like so many real ones in his years as a courier pilot for the daring Paris-Dakar airmail route. As a professional pilot in the pioneering days of aviation, he crashed again and again - and after an emergency landing in the desert, he wrote the short work that would bring "St. Ex." worldwide fame in 1943. was to achieve world fame: "The Little Prince".
A year later, he took off on a reconnaissance flight from Corsica - from which he never returned. It was only decades later that wreckage from his plane was found in the sea. A German fighter bomber is said to have shot it down...
Susanne Schwan puts St. Exupery in the spotlight with excerpts from little-known texts and his letters and, of course, the immortal "Prince", accompanied by French musical impressions by Simon Bellett
Reservations under 0471 590 2555, stadtbibliothek@magistrat.bremerhaven.de and on site. Box Office from 6.30 pm
Venue: Central Library in the Hanse-Carré, Bürgermeister-Smidt-Str. 10