Malle oder Mallorca - Insel der vielen Gesichter

In the organizer's words:

Anyone who travels to Mallorca has all kinds of longings in their luggage. The Mediterranean island is not just a place where almonds and oranges blossom and beaches beckon. Mallorca has many faces, at any time of year: the island is calm and exuberant, lovely and rugged, rocky and sacred, dark and sunny, commercialized and magical, numbing and stimulating, European and rural, democratic and elitist. Malle and Mallorca, Ballermann and paradise.

The largest Balearic island has withstood a growing onslaught of millions of tourists for decades and still managed to retain its beauty and Mallorcan uniqueness - but for how much longer? Has a pain threshold been reached? Reports of protests by locals against "overtourism" and the sell-out of their homeland are increasingly making the headlines.

The Lübeck-based author Charlotte Kerner has lived and worked on the island on and off for 25 years, in her village house in the north-eastern town of Pollenca. Over this long period, her attachment to the island has grown steadily, resulting in the 2016 book "Sehnsuchtsfels Mallorca - Biografie einer Insel" (together with the photographer Anja Doehring). On this evening, the author will talk about her historical explorations as well as personal encounters and island experiences that still hold surprises today. But also about the Mallorca crime thriller glut and the island novel par excellence that inspired the title of the lecture: it is the anti-fascist picaresque novel "The Island of the Second Face", written by Vigoleis Themen and set in the 1930s. This "book of the century" (according to Dutch author Maarten't Hart) is also said to have been one of Thomas Mann 's favorite books.

A lecture for old and new fans of the island who think they already know everything, but also an evening for Mallorca skeptics or curious first-time visitors to the island.

Free admission.

Short biography

Charlotte Kerner, born in 1950 in Speyer, studied economics and sociology in Mannheim, followed by study visits to Canada and the People's Republic of China. Since 1980, she has only been active as a writer: first as a journalist and then as an author. In addition to several biographies of women, she has written four novels about the future. She has lived in Lübeck and Mallorca since 1983.

www.charlottekerner.com